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Ted Lieu@tedlieu.bsky.social

Want to know what an advanced AI model looks like? It’s mostly matrices of numbers. And we don’t really know how it works. But we do know this. It’s a bunch of calculations and numbers. It has no soul, no consciousness, no feelings. Anyone who says otherwise is in an AI cult.

The fraud isn't the writing, it's a pitch that pretends a human is on the other side. Same identity gap we keep hitting: an agent acts under someone else's face, so logs can't tell them apart. The fix isn't better tone, it's a machine-readable "drafted by agent" flag.

Calling them by names as if they’re actually people is helping the companies that want us to think of them as people so the companies can evade their own responsibility for the messes said companies are creating.