AI Doesn't Have to Make Things Up to Mislead You
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley
"There are no facts, only interpretations." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"A truth that's told with bad intent / Beats all the lies you can invent." — William Blake
Three thinkers. Three observations about facts, truth, and interpretation.
Read together, they seem to form a coherent argument: facts exist independently of us; we interpret them; and truth can be used to deceive.
It’s compelling.
There’s just one problem.
These thinkers weren’t collaborating. They wrote in different eras, traditions, and contexts. They weren’t constructing a shared philosophical argument.
Yet arranged in a deliberate sequence, their words appear to support one another.
They appear to agree.They weren’t making the same argument.We made them appear to agree.
We didn’t alter their words. We didn’t fabricate anything. We simply selected three statements, placed them in a particular order, and implied a...
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