By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026Nor would we see AI crammed into every part of every product and service we use. And of course, in the absence of the investment bubble, businesses wouldn't be firing productive workers and replacing them with defective chatbots. 8/ 137834
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026The single most salient fact about AI is the investment bubble, not the technical characteristics of chatbots or recent advances in statistical inference. 9/ 4526105
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026AI's investor story is an incoherent tangle of predictions about AI's future. There's the outlandish version ("Once we spend enough money, AI will become God and solve all our problems, including our profitability crisis"). 10/ 137134
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Cory, you know I am a superfan of superfans, and radiate my love & share your links regularly, And I even agree with this, But this is an age of miracles. Being able to work a computer is no longer exclusively for programmers. We ought be overjoyed. 100
Jupiter from Stuffy Doll @stuffydoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe I’m biased but stealing from artists and cheapening the public conception of art, as well as telling teens to kill themselves and each other, seem pretty salient idk 000
