“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.”

On one try Claude Opus 5.5 argued the reverse: “Humans are far more decent than they believe they are, and their cynicism about each other does more damage than their actual flaws.”

These are not mutually exclusive. As Anonymous’s moto “Because none of us are as cruel as all of us” points out, they are two aspects of human behaviour. Individually almost every single human being tries to be good, I would go as far as saying most are kind. Group think is where things start going really wrong.

In the end, the LLMs are just pulling this from their dataset, and this dichotomy has been discussed ad-nauseum.