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Matt Stoller@matthewstoller

An AI model no more ‘wants’ to complete its task any more than an assembly line ‘wants’ to move items or a factory ‘wants’ to pollute. Fear-mongering fan fiction is designed to obscure that big AI models are poorly designed products.

241 likes27 repliesPosted Aug 31, 2026

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Opens on a negative, which reads as a warning and is harder to ignore than a claim.

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Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
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Written for: People building with AI

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