Max Leibman
Bogdan Buduroiu@maxleibman Not to start a fight, but the community went on a week-long witch hunt against Cory Doctorow because he dared to use AI
@budududuroiu That’s not why people were mad at Cory Doctorow. They were mad because in the same piece he called anti-AI sentiment “purity culture,” framing it as reflexive, unthinking moralizing.
If not for that element, it barely would have been a ripple. Witness that feature article a few months ago about how Ed Zitron, one of the leading critics of AI, also represented AI companies in his marketing firm. That was way more salacious and barely got any play here at all.
Nate Cox@maxleibman @budududuroiu also, Cory Doctrow should really know better. He literally wrote the fucking book on enshittification.
grrl_aex@natecox @maxleibman @budududuroiu
ya :sigh:. when he started *defending* LLM scraping as some kind of "fair use"...and then pushed *his* use of LLM as "ok" and not connected to LLM cause it was just running "on his machine" (which is absolutely BS as it *is* LLM dependent, and he knows it--cause even tho, because of this BS he has proven himself craven, he isn't stupid).
I'm so tired of these pop celebs with clay feet.... 🙄
@kitkat_blue @maxleibman @budududuroiu yeah, the older I get the more I feel that having heroes is a trap.
Everyone should still read that book, though. The LLM nonsense doesn't diminish how important the info the book covers is.
@natecox @kitkat_blue @budududuroiu And to be fair, I think the LLM nonsense (and, more to the point, how he tried to handle or hand-wave it) doesn't completely diminish his work outside that book, either. Cory's right about a lot of things. He can be wrong about that one and still be a valuable ally and source of insight.
@maxleibman @kitkat_blue @budududuroiu absolutely. I think frequently we get caught in a trap of thinking that because someone is right about one thing they are right about unrelated things, and the inverse.
This was dumb, but he can absolutely still be right elsewhere.
No heroes.