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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

That's because chatbots have very low *switching costs*: going from one chatbot to another costs almost nothing: www.businessinsider.com/why-ai-start... Everyone using AI knows this to be true.

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I run an AI-powered startup, and we canceled our ChatGPT plan months ago. Claude feels more like the promise of AI.

An AI startup cofounder explains why they canceled their ChatGPT plan, and are among a growing group of AI user's choosing Claude over ChatGPT.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

When I walked the floor at CES last year, I asked every AI gadget maker, "What will you do if your chatbot provider jacks up their prices?" and to a one, they said, "No problem, we've designed this thing so that we can switch chatbots with the click of a mouse": www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfhE...

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CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday) | Better Offline

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

That means that you can't just "build the railroad and run the cars over it."

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Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The only plausible commercial solution from the LLM kings may call for a race (or war) between AI agent armies: to take over the entire internet, claim every human user…and “enslave“ us all. Perhaps that’s what “winning” means.

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