By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026This is also a useful move for understanding the AI investment bubble. It's not just billionaires who don't think other people are as real as they are and consequently their jobs can be done by chatbots. 7/ 1815
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026It's *also* billionaires who believe that bosses can be sold AI and don't care if the AI is defective, because that's your boss's problem after he buys the AI and fires you. 8/ 212516
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026They don't have to believe in AI in order to think it a good investment: like an investor betting that Joe Rogan can sell millions of dollars' worth of peptides to desperate young men, they are assessing the sales potential, not the merits of the thing for sale: pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/a... 9/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 110114
DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026c.f.DaveDisaster@davedisasterman.bsky.socialLad learning on the job: But what about the customers? Old timer: Oh no lad, they are just the recipients, the customers are the senders, and we've already got their money, so fuck 'em... 000
