Rex Douglass says LLM backlash is cycling through a new moral panic every few months
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-27
Rex Douglass says the latest LLM backlash looks like yet another predictable “moral panic.” He jokes that the pattern has already cycled through hallucinated citations in May, math proofs in July, and will likely move on to a new target in September.
He argues the regularity and short half-life of these debates are themselves the bigger signal: the panic repeats fast enough that it becomes part of the story around LLMs.
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