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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026AI *does* have destructive potential. It has the potential to destroy the productive economy when an AI salesman convinces your boss to fire you and replace you with chatbots that can't do your job: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 15/pluralistic.netPluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1569
