Why Use Misleading "Code" Metaphors to Describe AI?
davidmanheim · x · 2026-08-31
David Manheim questions why critics prefer using technical-sounding yet inaccurate metaphors like "lines of code" or "running a program" to describe AI. He argues that using terms that don't describe the actual experience or reality, just to sound more objective, is more misleading than using the language models themselves are trained in.
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