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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
(www.thenerve.news)
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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I'm gonna go ahead and assume that Doctorow's actual stance isn't as idiotic as the title suggests.
The stance is that chatbota aren't essential to the economy the way smartphones or computers are.
Yeah, that's a much saner take than what I imagined from the headline.