Critique

Introduction: The Great Misunderstanding Since the hype around ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others, artificial intelligence has become a buzzword. Marketing materials promise assistants that understand, learn, reason, write, and analyze. Startups put “AI-powered” on every second website. Billions change hands. Entire industries are built on the illusion. And yet, in the overwhelming majority of cases: These are not intelligent systems. They are statistically trained text generators optimized for plausibility—not truth, not understanding, not meaning. ...

Perspectives in Comparison Not everyone sees GPT and similar systems as mere deception. Some voices highlight: that LLMs enable creative impulses that they automate tasks once reserved for humans that they are tools – neither good nor evil, but shaped by use and context Others point out: LLMs are not intelligent – they only appear to be they generate trust through language – but carry no responsibility they replicate societal biases hidden in their training data So what does this mean for us? This site takes a critical stance – but does not exclude other viewpoints. On the contrary: Understanding arises through contrast. ...