AI is a texture generator: researcher warns it simulates research rather than doing it
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-20
Pushing back on the "AI gave me a decade's progress in a day" claim, @gerardsans warns that AI is a texture generator — it simulates research processes rather than instantiating them. Unless you can ground every suggestion AI makes, you risk leaving a trail of false positives and negatives. His core point: AI's limitations haven't changed; plausibility can't be trusted, AI self-reports least of all, and the crucial distinction is sampling versus grounding.
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