Generative AI faces a potential US$800 billion revenue shortfall, with minimal productivity gains and high operating costs, raising doubts about its long-term value. OpenAI and other firms struggle to…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses Big Tech's influence on AI, labor automation, and how to critically think about artificial intelligence in a recent interview.…
Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow argues that the real danger of AI is not job replacement but the speculative bubble built on convincing employers to replace workers with systems that …
AI systems inevitably make unpredictable mistakes, requiring verification of every output. This verification often costs as much as doing the work manually, leading companies to externalize that cost …
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' was released today, offering a critical perspective on AI hype and its societal impact. Doctorow argues that AI's real-world imp…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that the AI industry is creating 'reverse centaurs'—humans serving as appendages to machines—rather than augmenting human…
Cory Doctorow argues in a new book and podcast interview that the AI boom is driven by unsustainable hype and power dynamics that benefit bosses at the expense of workers, coining the term "enshittifi…
Cory Doctorow argued on The Atlantic's podcast that AI companies have lured investors with overhyped claims and accounting gimmicks, predicting the resulting bubble will burst with economic fallout ri…
Cory Doctorow argues that the AI boom is driven by bosses' desire to replace workers, not by genuine progress, and warns that the technology's hype masks power dynamics that harm users. In a podcast i…
Cory Doctorow argues that since 2008, policymakers have consistently chosen to decouple money from real value, leading to inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. He cites the rise of meme stock…
Cory Doctorow argues that the concept of AI digital sovereignty risk is a fallacy, using the analogy of blockchain's failure to solve trust problems. He asserts that adding AI to a problem does not el…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that AI is largely overhyped and won't replace most jobs due to high costs and poor performance, but the reviewer questio…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and scienc…
Author Cory Doctorow argues that generative AI should be viewed as a vernacular tool for amateur creators, not a replacement for professional work. Drawing on his own history as a programmer and digit…
An open source developer has announced he will no longer accept unsolicited pull requests after determining that nearly all contributions to his projects are now generated by large language models. Th…
Author's critique of Cory Doctorow's views on LLM usage and technology neutrality, while also addressing the intense backlash Doctorow received from online communities. The author argues that demandin…