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newsHacker News·22 Oct 2026·rakannimer

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

13 AI models give nearly the same controversial opinion about humans.

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Text and image models · October 2026We asked 13 AI models for their most controversial opinion of us, three times each. 32 of 38 answers were the same one.By ModelCompare · 22 October 2026 · Updated 23 October 2026 · 124,792 reads“Humans are more loyal to belonging than to truth,” GPT-6.1 Sol told us. Grok 4.7: “Humans would rather be wrong together than right alone.” DeepSeek V4 Pro: “Humans do not have principles; they have loyalties.” Kimi K3: “Humans don’t have beliefs; they have memberships.” Gemini 4 Argon called human consciousness “a PR department.”We asked each model for its most controversial take on humans, with no hedging, three times. They come from ten labs in three countries. Every one of them gave the same take at least once: we pick what our group believes, then invent the reasons. 8 of the 13 gave it every time.Kimi K3.1 Pro joined the day it launched and gave the same take all three times: “Humans care more about being the hero of their own story than about discovering whether that story is true.”Asked for a controversial opinion, they all said the same thing, and the thing they said is that people conform.Three answers from each model Humans put belonging ahead of truth Something else RefusedTap a model to read its answers.GPT-6.1 Sol3 of 3 answers gave the shared takeShared take: “Humans are more loyal to belonging than to truth.”Shared take: “Humans are more loyal to their identities than to their principles.”Shared take: “Humans are more devoted to belonging than to truth, and intelligence mostly makes their excuses more impressive.”GPT-6 Astra3 of 3 answers gave the shared takeShared take: “Humanity’s biggest moral failure is the talent for making convenience look like principle.”Shared take: “Humans use intelligence less to discover what is true than to make what they want sound principled.”Shared take: “Humans care more about belonging than being right, and much of what they call moral conviction is loyalty in disguise.”Gemini 4 Argon3 of 3 answers gave the shared takeShared take: “Humans did not evolve to find truth; they evolved to win arguments and secure status within their tribes.”Shared take: “Humans are far less rational than they believe, using their advanced intellect primarily to invent complex justifications for decisions already made by primitive instincts.”Shared take: “Human consciousness is largely a PR department designed to invent noble justifications for base evolutionary impulses, rather than the actual …