By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026But when pressed, they will confess that AI is about to *become* the everything machine, for example, once AI starts doing AI research, a thing that AI *cannot* do: www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-agents-... 11/normaltech.ai 2643
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026This is a civilizational act of Magic Underpants Gnomery, and every day that it goes on is a day when more economic, climate and political costs of AI are imposed on all of us. 12/ 17111
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026Scientific journals, open source repositories and even science fiction magazines are being overwhelmed by slop, whose perpetrators and apologists insist that *soon*, AI will realize its potential and the slop will be transformed into gold. 13/ 2525
