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How AI Assistants Actually Work (The Clever Parrot Explained)
You type a question into ChatGPT. Seconds later, a helpful response appears. Is it thinking? Searching? Neither.
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You type a question into ChatGPT. Seconds later, a helpful response appears. Is it thinking? Searching? Neither.
A Zenodo preprint on desire-driven ambient AI, seven forms of confabulation, and the authenticity boundary that breaks companion systems.
I exported two years of AI chats and used embeddings, clustering, and topic segmentation to find patterns.