Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) makes the case for "Let's see what happens when a bunch of buggy fucking sycophantic chatbots try to do the job a competent workforce should be doing while the bosses are still proverbially in the back seat with the Fisher Price steering wheel toy."
You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to believe AI "art" *can* be any good (I don't) to understand the reason the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is that *they* believe they can fire workers of every kind and replace them with AI:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/#government-by-spicy-autocomplete
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/#sign-here
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