I am extremely anti AI. I think it’s incredibly dangerous and being built by the most irresponsible people and companies on earth. I am also keenly aware of its progress. Somewhere around mid- to late-2025, AI surpassed me, personally, on virtually all tasks. There is pretty much no longer anything I can do better than the latest models, even given significant prep time. AI is genuinely better at nearly every non-embodied task than virtually every human alive at the present moment. The few exceptions generally boil down to specific, expert knowledge the AI presently lacks, not reasoning ability. Even the classic AI-writing tells can be easily prevented or filtered with minimal effort; the people abusing these tools are just largely too lazy to even do that.
Some anti-AI seem confused and call it all hype because the only model they ever interact with is the shitty Google search AI. That model is deliberately very bad and is designed to be very cheap. It’s analogous to asking Einstein a question, but telling him he only has 2 seconds to answer and that he doesn’t need to try very hard anyway. Obviously the answer won’t always be great, because the point isn’t a good answer but to give an O.K. answer some of the time very cheaply at scale. The frontier models are nothing like this.
GDPval pits model deliverables against work products from professionals averaging fourteen years of experience, graded blind by same-occupation experts. As of the December 2025 leaderboard the top model won outright on 49.7% of tasks and was rated at-least-as-good on 70.9%. The latest models like Fable, Opus 5, Kimi K3, and ChatGPT 6 are all astronomically superior to even the models assessed back then; GDPval has Opus 5 at an ELO of over 1800 against the human baseline defined at 1000. Other benchmarks show similar. Admittedly, these are specific, bounded, and measurable tasks; AI still struggles in other ways, especially over long periods of time, but it needs to be better understood that given a specific and measurable goal, the present generation of AI can generally accomplish it better than most humans, \*as assessed by other humans.\*
I think the discrepancy exists because anti-AI people obviously aren’t paying for AI, and so only interact with the shitty free models that can’t do anything. AI has come an insanely long way in a very short amount of time, and everyone who actually uses the frontier models knows this. To be truly anti-AI, you actually have to grasp what you’re up against, or else you’re just scared and uninformed.
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