By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026That's weird for the obvious reason that for most people "AI" is a synonym for "low quality." No one ever said "My kid's math teacher was replaced with AI" in a *happy* tone of voice. 31083
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026No one ever said, "Oh, great, they replaced their customer service department with AI chatbots!" My teenager and her friends use "That's so AI" as a shorthand for "That's low-effort shit." 421334
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026Not bosses, though. Bosses *love* AI and there's plenty of evidence that they're positively *harassing* the people who work for them with demands to use AI in their work: www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c...reddit.comFrom the antiwork community on RedditExplore this post and more from the antiwork community 210712
Ilya Petoushkoff @petoushkoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The only experience with any customer service replaced with chatbots that I can think of: screaming at a robot until a real human who can actually solve the problem gets involved. 010
alfhvatne.bsky.social @alfhvatne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Same here in Norway. Global kid uprising against AI 000
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's really remarkable how bad they are -- worse, in some cases much worse, than the old-fashioned phone trees. My bank's had me screaming "I NEED TO TALK TO A REAL PERSON!!!" into my phone the other day. Enshittification scores another win . . . 000
