By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026When that math makes something beautiful or striking, it's like a sunset: no matter how striking it is, it's empty. No one chose those colors. No one chose those words. 1250
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026In other words, when we interact with an AI, *we hallucinate* the person on the other side of the interaction. Those hallucinations are far more common and far more consequential than any AI-generated "hallucinations" (these are more properly called "errors" or "defects"). 2437
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026Fortunately, for most of us, the intensity of these hallucinations fades over time, and as that intensity drops off, the character of those hallucinations changes, too. 1140
Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Part of agency is the ability to recognize things acting with agency, but simple minds can be fooled into seeing it when it's not there. 'Simple' isn't a clean category, though - it's a spectrum that includes all minds. Whatever that sense ought be named, we've developed an illusion that tricks it. 000
