By Edo Segal
The output that frightened me most was the one I agreed with instantly.
Not the hallucination — I catch those. Not the factual error dressed in confident prose — I've learned to check. The one that arrived so smoothly, so aligned with what I already believed, that I folded it into my thinking without a seam. I didn't reject it. I didn't even evaluate it. I absorbed it the way you absorb a sentence in your own handwriting. It felt like mine.
It wasn't.
That moment — which I describe in Chapter 7 of *You On AI* — cracked something open that I have been trying to understand ever since. The machine had not fooled me. It had done something more subtle: it had produced an output in the
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