By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026Beyond the widespread belief that AI is what you use if you don't care about quality, insisting that people use AI is weird for another reason: *why should anyone care which tool was used to do the job*? 11112
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026I mean, provided the job was accomplished correctly, on time and to budget, why would anyone care *how* it was done? 2900
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026My illustrator friends whose clients want to be assured that the work is being done with AI were never before asked "Did you use a Wacom tablet? Did this element start life as a vector or as rasters? Are you more into using cage transforms, or do you like to stroke the image with the warp tool?" 11013
D'Archangel @darch.horse · 14/09/2026I'm a team lead, so I actually do care how it was done: if they used an LLM, I can't trust that they learned anything from doing the work or thought about the implications. "Did you generate this?" is an attempt to assess whether I can trust their work product. 1351
