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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026The moment we stop believing in that potential is the moment we stop supplying AI companies with bales of cash to shovel into their money-furnaces so they can sell hundred dollar bills for a dollar each to Musk cultists to generate child porn and pictures of Sonic the Hedgehog with giant boobs. 14/ 16117
