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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* The AI bubble is part of a lineage of pump-and-dump swindles created by monopolists who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow even after they've saturated their markets: pluralistic.net/2025/03/06/p... 5/

A mockup of a smartphone displaying an audiobook app that's playing 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI'. Next to it appears this text: 'A bracing, daringly optimistic plan for how we can free ourselves from the awfulness. —John Hodgman (on Enshittification)'

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* In service to that stock swindle, AI companies have cooked up all kinds of ways to "juke the stats" to paint a false picture of AI adoption: pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/k... 6/

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Pluralistic: AI and the fatfinger economy (02 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026

* AI is a normal technology, and in the absence of the bubble, we'd call this collection of technically interesting, sometimes useful tools "plug-ins": pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/n... 7/

A mockup of a smartphone displaying an audiobook app that's playing 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI'. Next to it appears this text: 'A masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley. —Harper՚s (on Enshittification)'

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