"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466oh what a great line
Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial IntelligenceLarge language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…