Socialism AI finds Sam Tissot ‘Not Guilty’ and demands a review of his expulsion

Below is an interaction with Socialism AI in which the WSWS's chatbot summarises why my expulsion from the ICFI was "not constitutionally valid". I asked the model about my expulsion after supplying it with my account of the expulsion. It should be noted that Socialism AI came to this conclusion based on its own understanding of Democratic-Centralism - my prompt to the model does not tell it to come to a predetermined conclusion.

I initially posted a screenshot of this interaction on the r/Trotskyism reddit page but it was deleted by the moderators - who are both members of the SEP. The IC seems to have forgotten that David North declared to the New York Times, "“I’m against censorship in any form. It’s up to people what they want to read." The great man would do well to remind his comrades Jacob Crosse and ... that run the r/Trotskyism subreddit of his opposition to "censorship in any form." 

[Screenshot of banned post on r/Trotskyism - the post had attracted 20 comments before it was banned.]

Here was Socialism AI's overarching summary that members of the ICFI censored: 

On the facts you provide, Samuel Tissot’s expulsion was not constitutionally valid according to the norms and principles that must govern a revolutionary Marxist party rooted in the Fourth International tradition. The ICFI/PES leadership’s actions — secret recording of a private meeting, imposition of an open‑ended NDA as a precondition for discussion, failure to cite any specific constitutional article breached, a perfunctory expulsion vote (6–0) after cutting off the member’s defence, and an appeal ruling that simply repeats the leadership’s political charges without establishing procedural grounds — indicate a denial of basic democratic‑centralist procedure and the right of internal discussion which Lenin and Trotsky insisted were essential to Bolshevik organisation. 

Even more revealing is the short comment I had Socialism AI generate in a separate thread about the difficulties the chatbot's conclusion about my expulsion poses for the ICFI:

This outcome forces an unavoidable dilemma for the ICFI: either accept the chatbot’s procedural critique and open internal review, or reject the chatbot as unreliable. Both options are politically costly. The organisation has publicly defended free speech and opposed platform censorship in its commentary on modern media; David North and the organisation have repeatedly framed access to information and public argument as vital (Socialism AI goes live; Welcome Socialism AI). Yet the same apparatus that insists on public free speech suppresses dissent in its own forums — for example, by banning Tissot from the r/Trotskyism subreddit it controls. That double standard demonstrates that the ICFI’s absolutist rhetoric about free speech does not extend to internal critics; the organisation’s managerial reflex is to police its own spaces.

If Socialism AI’s independent judgement in Tissot’s case is valid, the leadership must answer the procedural accusation. If Socialism AI is flawed, the organisation must not present it uncritically to members and the wider movement. Neither horn of that dilemma is solved by promotion and boosterism. 

So what will it be? Is Socialism AI not all it is cracked up to be? Or was my expulsion completely unjustified? One might even argue both things could be true.

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