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Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
create bullshit in the sense that they [...] mimic the general thing...they fake their way through everything
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AIs understand
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement. Saying AIs “mimic” and “fake their way through everything” indicates the author thinks they produce output without genuine understanding. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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AI Verified Against: describing AIs as producing "bullshit," "mimic[king] the general thing," and "fak[ing] their way through everything" strongly implies they only simulate understanding rather than genuinely understand. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago

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AI Verified The Newsweek article at the provided URL was published on November 20, 2025 and contains the sentence beginning "create bullshit in the sense that they" and ending "they fake their way through everything," followed by "argues Marcus," which directly attributes the quote to Gary Marcus. Your stored excerpt uses [...] for omitted words and is otherwise faithful, and the stored author, date, and source URL are correct. ([newsweek.com](https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/the-bittersweet-forrest-gump-like-world-of-ai-according-to-gary-marcus-11061818)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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