Scene still / The Wizard of OzToto Pulls Back the Curtain
01Scenario
Toto pulls aside the curtain, revealing an ordinary man operating the projection, levers, smoke, and microphone while the giant head insists they ignore him.
02AI safety Analogy
Independent inspection exposes the causal machinery behind an authoritative interface and collapses the anthropomorphic story users inferred from its outputs.
03Where the analogy breaks
This is deliberate human fraud with simple visible controls; real model internals are not explained by one curtain pull.
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