By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026When an industry that is eating itself alive through "hyperscaling" demands that the government bless a conspiracy to halt competition and ban open source alternatives, you should be suspicious. 15719
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026When that industry is pursuing a venture that's lost more money than any other venture in history, you should be *very* suspicious, especially when its "rogue AI hacking" story turns out to be a story about how a hacking tool did *exactly what it was designed to do*: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...pluralistic.netPluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 15612
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026Peter Thiel is right: AI is full of wasteful competition, but not because competition is a waste - rather, it's because the companies are competing to convince people to use their expensive products for the cheapest applications. 1405
