By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026These accounts are cooking the brains of *everyone*, not just AI insiders. Last night, a man at my event in Manchester started shouting that AI was "setting its own goals" and wouldn't stop interrupting to insist that this was going on. 21617
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026He left shortly thereafter, so he didn't get a chance to hear me explain what *actually* happened, which is a pity. 21284
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026To understand the truth about the Hugging Face hack, you could do a lot worse than to listen to Ed Zitron and Cal Newport's recent podcast conversation on Ed's "Better Offline" podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...podcasts.apple.comNo, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal NewportPodcast Episode · Better Offline · August 26 · 1h 5m 321442
samcborn.bsky.social @samcborn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Help me understand what actually happened to a shorter version of same end result; human or bot we don’t care. Human direction is key? To the majority of us this is just as hopeless. Bathroom screaming about tech deviants Hobbes would find appealing. Omimpotent AI label is insurmountable to us. 100
