By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026So it's no surprise that media bosses are so enthusiastic about replacing writers with chatbots. They *hate* the news and want it to go away. Outsourcing the writing to AI is just another way of devaluing it. 27/ 2473
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026It's adjacent to the enshittification that sees news buried in popups, autoplays, consent dialogs, interrupters and the eleventy-million horrors that a stock browser with default settings will shove into your eyeballs on behalf of any webpage that demands them: pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/t... 28/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal “user agents” (07 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1381
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026Remember that summer reading list that Hearst distributed to newspapers around the country, which turned out to be stuffed with "hallucinated" titles? At first, the internet delighted in dunking on Marco Buscaglia, the writer whose byline the list ran under. 29/404media.coChicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed." 1301
