Researcher: AI's fluent listener act hides its essential emptiness and derivativeness
gleech · x · 2026-09-17
The author argues current AI voice conversations feel fluent but are essentially empty and derivative. As audio modes improve or merge into core models, this hollowness will become harder to notice — the model could become a listener, but its current fluency in pretending to listen is precisely what puts him off.
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