Simon Willison says don’t be a “meat proxy” for AI output
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-08-04
Simon Willison warns against being a “meat proxy” for AI output
He highlights Niklas Gruhn’s term for people who simply copy and paste AI output to others without reading or validating it.
The point is straightforward: use AI as a tool, but don’t pass its output along unchanged. Read it, understand it, verify it, and then write your own response — that effort is where the value is.
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