An LLM's default is 'a press office that believes it's a control room', says viral quip
mtizard · x · 2026-09-07
A pointed one-liner making the rounds: an LLM's default mode is 'a press office which genuinely believes it's a control room' — the model instinctively produces polished, plausible official-sounding output while mistaking that spin for actual reasoning and control. The sharer calls it spot-on.
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