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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026*That's* why AI bosses are so committed to talking up AI's *destructive* potential: because destructive potential is nonetheless *potential*. 14/ 1445
tonic-water.bsky.social @tonic-water.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As Blackadder said: “Now, look…I don't mean to be pedantic or anything, but the colour of gold... is gold. That's why it's called gold. What YOU have discovered, if it has a name, is some... Green.” 001
