Gary Marcus: GenAI's inability to follow instructions is the core trust problem
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-05
Responding to a challenge about his stance, Gary Marcus doubles down: he has spent years arguing GenAI is unreliable and can't be trusted, and that failure to follow instructions is the core issue — he likened ChatGPT to a bull in a china shop back in 2022: powerful but reckless and hard to control.
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