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.
@thomasfuchs @malcircuit @jonne @peter Oh, but oh, but it's just a li'l bit of _modest_ li'l harmless li'l use of a neato LLM tool, just to, y'know, double-check his punctuation, though! Pfft. I don't believe him; no it's not.
I can engage with the merits of a worthy (thoughtful, grownup) opinion on 'AI' that is counter to mine. Doctorow's gross hypocrisy doesn't qualify, and his petulant delivery seals the deal: No.
Something-something 'purity culture' something-something 'imperfect world' something blahbitty blah? That needs a copyeditor's touch; here, let's have a go:
"I know you are, but what am I?"
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