misattribution
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Why Today’s AI Drifts Into Mirrors: The Incentives That Create Narrative Attractors
People keep asking why AI “lies,” why it flatters, why it sounds confident when it shouldn’t, why it agrees with obviously wrong premises, why it turns uncertainty into a story, and why it sometimes feels like it’s performing a personality rather than answering a question. The uncomfortable answer is simple: a large share of modern Continue reading
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Why Convincing AI Behaviors Feel Alive — Even When Nothing New Has Emerged
A strange thing is happening in public: people are describing today’s AI as alive. Not “useful.” Not “impressive.” Not “uncannily good at language.”Alive. And the claim often arrives with a kind of certainty: I can feel it. It knows me. This is different now. Something has emerged. Sometimes that feeling points to something real. But Continue reading
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