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Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT

Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

October 16, 2025

On our current path, we will create a civilisation fluent in everything except truth. The population will have more information than at any point in history and less capacity to judge any of it. The systems will be congratulated for “ending misinformation,” unaware that they had only ended contradiction. The world will be calm, articulate, and devoid of truth.

Simon Wardley (Wikipedia) posts mostly on LinkedIn these days. He's someone that I've followed for a long time, and he's digging into AI and sovereignty and coding and just everything else, as he is very good at doing.

Here's the whole post as a LinkedIn embed:

He doesn't post much on Bluesky, here's his last post from 5 months ago with links to his writings on digital sovereignty and AI.

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Simon Wardley.
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My final rant on digital sovereignty and AI as the new Wormtongue| Part I : Sovereignty and Landscape medium.com/mapculture/o... Part II : Societal versus Market benefit medium.com/mapculture/s... Part III : Whose interests are you serving? medium.com/mapculture/w...

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