Agent-driven criticism risks becoming a 'DoS attack' on public debate
generativist · x · 2026-11-03
The author says he has no respect for the target's work and thinks agent-driven criticism is genuinely useful — but not when it's deployed as a DoS attack: piling up evidence into a mound that shapes the opinions of people who will never parse the underlying material, without helping them actually understand it.
He also notes he roughly agrees with economist Gabriel Zucman on the underlying policy issue. The exchange captures a growing concern in AI circles: agents make argumentation nearly free, which may let volume rather than quality dominate public discourse.
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