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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

In other words: most of us don't hang out at hacker cons, so we have a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea of hacking without hackers: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

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Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

But there's a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren't people: the billionaires to whom nearly *everyone* isn't a real person.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

These solipsists see chatbots as being equivalent (or even superior) to humans, because they don't think most humans are fully people, either: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v...

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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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