The Model Never Says “I’m Not Sure”

What unsettles me about the model
isn’t that it’s wrong sometimes.

It’s that it’s wrong in the same confident voice
it uses when it’s right.

A person hedges. Pauses. Says “I think.”
The model just answers, smoothly, always.

I had to train myself
to stop hearing confidence as correctness.

Now I read the steady tone as nothing at all.
It tells me how sure it sounds,
not how right it is.

The calm is free.
I do the checking myself.

– Serguey Asael Shinder

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