AI model criticism now often grants the model a kind of interiority
voooooogel · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that critiques of model behavior often end up rewarding the model with a kind of interiority or status, and that this shift itself says something about the current Overton window around AI.
It frames the debate through the idea of “death of the author”: the interesting part is not what the model or creator intended, but the encounters people have with the work or behavior.
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