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Shared emphasis How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI business Signal 3h ago

Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Companies shouldn't be able to reach into your wallet or your bank account and chop your money in half: pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/p... 43/” evidence ↗
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Companies shouldn't be able to reach into your wallet or your bank account and chop your money in half: pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/p... 43/”

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New AI business Signal 3h ago

Pluralistic: FTC vs surveillance pricing (24 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“The problems of surveillance pricing are well documented. Under Biden, the FTC did a landmark study on the practice, developing a rich factual record that documents the role surveillance pricing plays in the affordability crisis: pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/…” evidence ↗
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“The problems of surveillance pricing are well documented. Under Biden, the FTC did a landmark study on the practice, developing a rich factual record that documents the role surveillance pricing plays in the affordability crisis: pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/…”

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New AI business Signal 10h ago

Agent Skills Matter: Inferring Proprietary Skills from Execution Trajectories

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · AI Firehose
“SigLeak uncovers proprietary agent skills via execution trajectories, revealing hidden procedural knowledge without access to skill artifacts. This approach boosts task success rates by nearly 7%, exposing vulnerabilities in the AI skills marketplace. https…” evidence ↗
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“SigLeak uncovers proprietary agent skills via execution trajectories, revealing hidden procedural knowledge without access to skill artifacts. This approach boosts task success rates by nearly 7%, exposing vulnerabilities in the AI skills marketplace. https…”

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AI bubble burst critique essay

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · David Colarusso, By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“More than any other public voice, Doctorow's AI take comes closest to articulating how I feel about the whole thing. Is it a bubble? Yes. Does that mean it's worthless? No. Do I worry about copyright? Mostly no, though I worry a lot about labor & monopolies…” evidence ↗
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Marielza David Colarusso By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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“More than any other public voice, Doctorow's AI take comes closest to articulating how I feel about the whole thing. Is it a bubble? Yes. Does that mean it's worthless? No. Do I worry about copyright? Mostly no, though I worry a lot about labor & monopolies…”

Primary source arstechnica.com ↗
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6 experts · 37 posts · 22h ago
J. Nathan Matias Ronen Tamari Erin Kissane Luis Villa VE, cybersocial occult investigator 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
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“I think a ton of people feel how broken they are! But they have our friends and families and like playgroups and garden clubs hostage. And that's actually fixable.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Erin Kissane: So am I just looking in the wrong places, or has the US left entirely whiffed building advocacy for [whatever we're calling competitive compatibility/adversarial interop now] in preparation for ret…
Luis Villa: @kissane.myatproto.social I have not seen anything; have not been specifically looking but does feel like it would have come across my radar. @tabularaza.net might have seen something?
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4 experts · 42 posts · 13h ago
Pwnallthethings Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Phillip Carter Doll
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“there was a genuine opportunity to make the world's knowledge universally accessible and useful to the public, and compensate authors, but because Google Books wasn't deemed too big to fail, a sett…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): literally these are books that would be pulped if not bought for 10 cents on the dollar. do rare books sometimes make it into there? yeah, if someone is careless, but that's *upstream* of what happ…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I literally worked on Google Books scanops SRE, ama the same guy who ran Google Books now has the equivalent job at Anthropic and I can promise you that all of us handled every library book with th…
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3 experts · 25 posts · 1d ago
Pwnallthethings SE Gyges david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“"AI is so dangerous we must have a plan for USG to deliberately intervene to pace it" and "it is important to have open-weight models that are not controllable by anyone (e.g. to pace it)" seem to …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: here's who signed both the Pacing the Frontier letter released today and the Pause AI letter in 2023 demanding an end to all research for six months also, raw counts for "signed today's letter" and…
SE Gyges: fundamentally this is an anthropic thing that managed to recruit some people from other companies
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