Plain Strata: Nobody Checks the Answer
An answer from an AI is text, and text carries no receipt, so the machine that produced yours could have run a model a tenth of the size, handed back something plausible, and pocketed the difference in electricity without leaving a single mark on the output. The obvious response is to check the work, except checking the work means doing the work again, and an industry that pays twice for every answer it sells does not survive the arithmetic. So the field stopped checking: every answer is accepted instantly with no proof at all, a window stays open in which any stranger anywhere can demand one…
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