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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

A few of my collaborators insist that I use Office 365's AI-enabled version of Word to work on documents with them. It's *maddening*. I estimate the ratio of good suggestions to bad ones that M365 insists on shoving into my face at about 1:100. It's practically unusable. 25/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

It's so bad that I often copy the block of text we're working on into a text editor, make my changes, then paste it back into the Word window. If I were to accept even 10% of these suggestions, my work would be made *significantly* worse. 26/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

Putting chatbots into Word pushed it from "annoying" into "enshittening." I certainly understand how relying on a chatbot to make edits to your work could make it worse. That's where *discernment* comes in. I have written more than 30 books over the past 25 years. 27/

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Chris T. @readyuser.one · 28/07/2026

I think George R.R. Martin has the right idea , writing on an old word processor and saving to floppy.

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