*Cory Doctorow* is using LLMs?! For *spell checking*??? https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

The guy who has spent his life campaigning against the corpos is using Ollama, a model made by Facebook by training on 80 terabytes of books taken without the consent of their authors? And his reasoning as to why is because it's *slightly better* than the alternative?

> Ollama is a pretty good typo-catcher. Probably half of the "errors" it points out are false positives, which is better than the false positive rate for Google Docs' grammar-checker.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@AndrewRadev As Sun Tzu would say "If you stand by the river (or the waste drain in this case) long enough, you will see your idols start using LLLM/AI":(
@tppetkov Yeah, there's been a lot of additions to my shit list recently.
@AndrewRadev Time to add "Not interested in working with AI. If your company demands from employees to use AI in daily work, don't contact me" to my CV..