If the new German court decision — to hold LLM companies liable for the false claims their LLMs made — become universal, effectively sidelining generative AI until better techniques came along, would you be happy, sad, or indifferent?
@garymarcus
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Hallucinations are baked into LLMs, hindering German operations, need better tech
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100%, hallucinations are baked in (as I have been saying since 2001) and that is why basically no LLM company afford to operate in Germany now. We need a better technology.
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Gary Marcus’ 2024 prediction: LLMs commodity, no AGI, profits squeezed
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Me, 2024. LLMs will be commodity; (except for Nvdia) profits will be hard to squeeze out. Techbros: Shut up, Gary. GPT-5 is gonna be AGI. Today: LLMs are commodity; (except for Nvidia) profits have been hard to squeeze out. (Also, still no AGI.* *per definitions generally
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New Observer series on catastrophic AI risks with Bengio, Marcus
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New series from The Observer with @Yoshua_Bengio
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Gary Marcus warns pausing AI is a choice, refusal leads to harm
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It is not literally impossible to pause or slow down. It is a choice. But if the “frontier labs” continue to refuse to do, I strongly believe it will eventually lead to tremendous harm. (Essentially every warning I have issued like this has come to pass; I am afraid this one
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Marcus warns pausing AI is a choice, refusal leads to harm
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It is not literally impossible to pause or slow down. It is a choice. But if the “frontier labs” continue to refuse to do, I strongly believe it will eventually lead to tremendous harm. (Essentially every warning I have issued like this has come to pass; I am afraid this one
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OpenAI criticized for losing lead and credibility to Anthropic
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OpenAI is hosed. There is almost no reason to prefer them over Anthropic, they have lost their lead (despite every advantage in the world), they have made commitments far far beyond their means, their leader has lost credibility, and they don’t have a plausible plan for becoming… https://t.co/9fDsAplXB2
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 9 juin 2026OpenAI is hosed. There is almost no reason to prefer them over Anthropic, they have lost their lead (despite every advantage in the world), they have made commitments far far beyond their means, their leader has lost credibility, and they don’t have a plausible plan for becoming
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Debate on AI reasoning: Marcus hopes for Dwarkesh response
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what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond.
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Fable’s safety guardrails broken within an hour; no surprise.
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fable’s safety guardrails broken within an hour. raise your hand if you are surprised.
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Gary Marcus: Justine’s answer sounds like AI slop, not AGI
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justine may kid about being bullied, but the answer sure sounds more like 2026 LLM-powered-AI slop than AGI to me.