Mat Dryhurst: misleading AI content is profitable and praised — that's the real stakes
matdryhurst · x · 2026-11-04
AI researcher Mat Dryhurst argues many clever, earnest people miss the stakes of AI misinformation because 'misleading people is not only profitable, but lauded.' He notes you can simply instruct a reasoning model to become bad at spelling — once an AI-slop stunt goes viral, an incentive forms to repeat it — and closes with 'Cui bono,' urging attention to the incentive structures behind misleading AI content.
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