Should human-only discussion spaces exist? Debate over AI quietly infiltrating discourse
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-23
Blogger birchlse argues we need human-only spaces to form views on serious matters, plus AI-only and hybrid spaces — but if human-only spaces are hybridized by stealth, we'll forget what a non-AI-influenced position even looks like. Responder gerardsans counters that AI is 'a text sampler not a being' and questions the value of spending expensive inference compute on frozen weights for this purpose. An ongoing debate over whether AI should be deliberately kept out of human discourse.
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