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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026There's the dystopian version ("The majority of jobs in the economy will be done by our chatbots, and the employers who previously employed those workers will split the wage savings with us"). 11/ 129821
