The False Consciousness of AI 06/12/2026
Beware of deepfakes, but most of all, be aware of confirmation bias.
“The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.” Noam Chomsky, The False Promise of ChatGPT