Rosie Campbell: motives attacks say nothing about whether a claim is true
RosieCampbell · x · 2026-09-10
Researcher Rosie Campbell re-shares a crisp point: "believers of X are biased," "X is harmful to believe," and "bad people believe X" may all be true, yet none of them bear on whether X is actually true — a warning against motive-based reasoning replacing fact-checking in AI discourse.
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