“It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist”
Very good article, definitely worth a read
The motivation behind this religious zeal is a WORLD WITHOUT WORKERS.
All the times these fuckers tell us we can’t have worker’s rights, we can’t have UBI, we can’t have universal healthcare, we can’t have subsidized housing, etc., because it’s unrealistic remember that they crashed the world economy in a vain attempt to create 99% unemployment.
I mean… Everything is changing for the worse.
That’s been happening since way before AI
Yeah well they certainly upped the tempo with this bullshit.
Idk man, there’s great drugs to prevent the spread of HIV now
I mean it does change everything in that you quickly find out who is paying attention.
Yup. Ed ZItron is a programmer (I guess) and he had another programmer on his show and they both agreed: AI is extremely helpful in finding them clients they want to work with. That is to say, clients who are constantly asking for full AI-integration are going to be garbage to work for, clients who please say do not use AI in the product in any way are going to be great to work for.
This is the article they were talking about https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking
He is not a programmer, he’s actually into PR.
And Ludic, the guy he had on, said exactly the opposite.
AI is very unhelpful because it excites the terrible customers you don’t want to deal with, and puts off the good ones you would have been happy with.
Either way it ends the possibility of a fruitful exchange of Information.
Listen to the whole thing. It’s in there a good deal after your bit.
AI is changing everything, and the changes are all horrible.
Here’s a link to the exact same post on Cory Doctorow’s (tracker-free) blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/#i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again
As far as websites go, I’d trust The Nerve more than 99% of others considering who owns and runs it. Ghostery lists Sentry and Perimeterx trackers only which are internal user behaviour monitoring and security tools.
Maybe you know this but I just feel the need to slightly defend then here in case anyone assumes it’s the typical far more invasive cross-site tracking.
If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country’s chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country’s ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. Households, too, though perhaps a few of the younger members of those families would have to do their own homework again.
Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country’s Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors. Your country would effectively cease to exist.
I love you Cory, but this is bullshit.
Office 365? Maybe a few companies would loose some documents, and productivity would drop 30% for a few months until they recreated everything in LibreOffice.
iOS shares are negligible in most of the world. Google can’t brick Android devices. Most people run cheap Chinese phones. Worst case, maybe 30% of phones stop working. Everyone else goes to their local phone shop (which will get slammed for business) to install Lineage or Graphene. So some people don’t have smart phones for a few weeks. Annoying, but no biggie.
John Deere? Most food produced in the world is basically local and nearly organic. So some big corporate farms suffer, and there’s a huge boost to the majority small farms.
In all cases, these attacks would have about the same effect as loosing access to chat bots: temporarily productivity loss until workflows are adjusted, and then better sovereignty.
These attacks would likely kill the American tech economy and might hurt the US more than the rest of the world.
Am I just expected to trust Cory Doctorow?
He has deep ties with the tech industry tyrants. He “parties” with tech billionaires and Hollywood nutjobs at Burning Man.
Am I expected to trust you?
Trust no one.
Not even yourself
Link some evidence?
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Faith without works is dead.
Doctorow coined enshittification and is tirelessly fighting it and advocating for legislation against it.
you’re aggressively ignorant. easy block.
Dudes worked at the EFF for, what, decades?!?
The people who I work with will spend 15 minutes telling me both how great AI is and how hard it is to get it to do what you want it to do. They just don’t even listen to what they are saying.
Example: “What did you do on the weekend?” “Oh I found this cool new AI tool that lets you do <complex thing x>. It only did <simple version of complex thing x> and I had to do a bit of work to fix it up. But how cool?!”
Curious how Cory sidesteps the way that AI has affected cybersecuity.
Mythos broke into almost all of the NSA’s classified systems in the matter of hours. It’s damn good at breaking things.
Edit: wow, I’m really surprised by the ignorance of down voters here. Look at the security bugs found in FOSS by AI. AI is trash for writing code, but it’s way faster than humans at breaking code.
There is a huge conflict of interest with that claim being from the AI industry and the US government, with both being interested in overstating the capabilities of the model.
Also, Romanian college kids used to routinely break into US military webpages in the 90s, so IDK what the novelty is.
Tell me when they cause damage or are prosecuted, until then, it’s just an as, likely exaggerated or straight up false.
Especially from Anthropic, who has long maintained the position that their AI is dangerous, and is currently in a cock counting competition with OpenAI about who can hack the most companies first, and thus has the most dangerous model.
The whole thing has just started turning into a farce of “oh, well actually, my AI hacked companies before yours and did it to more companies than your AI”.
The US outlawed selling this product after that happend. That cuts your claim of marketing for CoI down.
And comparing a public website with a secured intranet is absured. As is comparing security systems of the 90s (when we used DES) to modern security systems.
Tell me when they cause damage or are prosecuted, until then, it’s just an as, likely exaggerated or straight up false.
Again, it sounds like you didn’t read the article. They were hired for this security audit. It wasn’t rogue. There won’t be a prosecution of their contractor lol.
They were just shocked at how effective it was. Most penetration tests don’t have that many critical vulnerability findings.
No, they outlawed it way before, but they didn’t outlaw that of OpenAI that also claimed to hack HuggingFace.
It’s also very convenient to outlaw a product that does not exist as advertised.
And “they were shocked” is not a metric. Compare it to the existing state of the art in a test controlled by a party with no conflict of interest and I’ll believe it happened.
You obviously didn’t read the article. Those are entirely different things.
Your obvious ignorance is showing.
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