By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026In other words, to commit criti-hype is to repeat the marketing claims of people like Sam Altman and then add, "(and that's bad)" in parentheses at the end. 41/ 1422
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026These guys - these terrible, mediocre, boring-ass losers - are bullshit factories, ejecting *fountains* of nonsense about AI. The right way to criticize them is to point out that they're lying - not to repeat their lies as warnings. eof/ 312123
Vafi Vadsaria ph.d 🔻🔺🔻🔺 @vafivadsariaphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Since AI relies, among other things, on nonsense (it’s essentially a massive open-air dump), their lies will—sadly—end up feeding into it and ultimately reinforcing it. 010
quakerworker.bsky.social @quakerworker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I keep wondering if there are backup plans for what all that “compute” could be used for. Nationalize it and turn it into a pre-crime prediction machine? The Fed buys it all to run UBI? Sell it to whoever wants it? Nationalize it and go full command economy? Scientific research for the common good? 010
Cowudi 🍉🐺🐻🐙🐷🌿🌍🌎 @cowudi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026One would be tempted to believe that after the age of stupid, an age of "a bit more enlightened" might come, only if we manage to stop stupid before they destroy everything, right? 🤦🏼♀️ 051
