The Real Resistance to AI: Ego and Moving Goalposts
flowersslop · x · 2026-08-18
The author argues that even if ChatGPT reached ASI-level with zero hallucinations and 100% accuracy, people would still call it a bad source.
Key points:
- The hallucination argument is weak: High-quality academic sources make mistakes too.
- It's always just ego: Humans dislike something smarter than them. AI mistakes prove it's stupid; AI success is dismissed as "stochastic parrot."
- Moving goalposts: Excuses shift from unreliability to "it doesn't really understand."
- The future of cope: When ASI is objectively better at everything, what excuse will remain?
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