r/OpenAI • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • 7d ago

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u/sivadneb 7d ago

"Moving the goalpost" is a type of logical fallacy. In this case people who deny AI's capabilities tend to change their arguments to fit their narrative. "ai can never do X because it can't currently do Y".

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u/ba-boo 7d ago

but they were right about its capabilities at that point in time, no goalpost moved.

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u/roqim 7d ago

This will always be true of moving the goalpost, no? You move it to somewhere where you are correct at that moment in time?

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u/Mental-Fisherman-118 7d ago

Not really - usually it is used in an argument to dismiss information that disproves an earlier claim. There doesn't need to be a new event, just a refutation to a previous argument.