Warning to Humanity: Why We Must Not Trust the AI "Fluency Trap"

I’m a professional data verifier, and I’m seeing something deeply broken. AI "hallucination" isn't a bug we can patch. It's a permanent feature of the "black box" architecture that even its creators don't fully grasp.

We’ve been blinded by the fluency of these models, but it’s a trap. We are firing human experts and replacing them with a tool that lies with total confidence. In my field, if you trust AI without 100% human verification, you aren't just being "efficient"—you are inviting a systemic disaster.

We need to stop the hype and preserve pure, un-AI-tainted search. If we let the "Black Box" take over our critical infrastructure (legal, medical, government), the financial and social costs will be astronomical. This isn't innovation. It’s a defect.

3 points | by jariamaria 2 days ago

2 comments

  • jariamaria 2 days ago
    You’re missing the forest for the trees. While you’re nitpicking my syntax, actual systems in the real world are failing because of the exact defects I’m describing. If you’d rather focus on a dash than the collapse of data integrity, then you’re exactly the kind of person who will be blindsided when the damage hits your own doorstep.
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    • PaulHoule 1 day ago
      Dude, you're writing about the impacts of AI and you're either getting your article written by AI or you have talked so much to ChatGPT-5 that you're pick up its language patterns. I mean, two years ago you wouldn't have known how to type an em-dash (you probably still don't) and nobody talked like that. If you don't know that's a tell I question if you know enough about AI to have an opinion.

      Now HN is under assault by people who are posting endless AI slop essays written by AI about the dangers of AI -- it's not as bad as you think it is, it's much worse, AI has stolen your voice!

  • PaulHoule 2 days ago
    Tell the AI that wrote this to lay off on the em dash and the "is not A; it is B" pattern.