people are sleeping on the last part of his comment:
"the best thing to me, throughout all the history of capitalism or innovation or whatever you want is to just flood the market"
JDAM all the data centers. right now. **urgently**
Cory Doctorow, Chris Hayes, and David Roberts: why do people hate AI i can't figure it out
the AI companies: we are going to take away your ability to think and sell it back to you, that's our plan, literally and explicitly, we are saying it from a stage.
He's using LLM-based spellcheckers, and kind of implying this is new amazing technology.
Presumably to prove that he isn't a "luddite" or whatever.
@jonne @thomasfuchs @malcircuit @peter
If I have been reading his complaints correctly Cory never hated AI unless it was burdening the user: i.e. "Reverse centaur"
I guess that's good enough to sell a lot of books because it is a "functionally smart" position with a little pushback against the AI trend, and not enough people in the media are willing to give us even that, but -my- problems with AI go deeper than the interface. I still consider it (attempted) intellectual theft and a sanitized interface for environmental destruction that provides results which are a lot less helpful than all the stuff that came before AI -- all the stuff they deliberately took away to make AI seem useful
(I recently stopped letting Cory in my feed after he started to share substack articles)
Fwiw, I've never read his stuff because I don't like his writing style.
But he veered into insulting people that are nominally "on his side" (whatever that means) recently and as you say there's other issues.
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