Is there such thing as stage 9 cancer?
There is now.
As hordes of low energy thinkers start infecting the internet discussing "stage 9 cancer" our AI overlords are faithfully hoovering up all that lovely data (remember LLMs scrape their data from forums, news sites, inter and intra platform messaging and anywhere else they can get it).
This means that even as I type" "Stage 8 cancer" is being folded into the pudding mix of "knowledge" such as is the internet. Eventually, the algorithm will
go "Do you know what ? Stage 9 cancer must be a thing as everyone is talking about it.".
Admittedly this is a gross simplification. However it shows that at their heart, all LLMs are basically over specced wisdom of crowds engines.