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New AI business Analysis 21h ago
Doctorow AI slop readers essay

Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Please don't show anyone your chatbot transcripts unless they ask to see them. It's embarrassing at best and annoying at worst: pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n... (There's that reference I promised. You can follow the link now!) 41/” evidence ↗
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Please don't show anyone your chatbot transcripts unless they ask to see them. It's embarrassing at best and annoying at worst: pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n... (There's that reference I promised. You can follow the link now!) 41/”

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New AI business Analysis 21h ago
Doctorow AI coding bugs essay

Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“As many skilled programmers can attest, chatbots can produce very useful output - but as even the most ardent AI-assisted coder will admit, chatbot-written code is also full of baffling, obvious errors (and subtle, hard-to-spot ones): pluralistic.net/2025/0…” evidence ↗
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“As many skilled programmers can attest, chatbots can produce very useful output - but as even the most ardent AI-assisted coder will admit, chatbot-written code is also full of baffling, obvious errors (and subtle, hard-to-spot ones): pluralistic.net/2025/0…”

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3 experts · 12 posts · 7h ago
Ted Underwood jake tachikoma
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“Agree here. I’m optimistic that the US can be a good actor; I hate this regime like poison but am not anti-US. But a desperate gambit to corner the market on AI a) is not going to work and b) will …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tachikoma: this regime ends in 2029, but what comes next? what if it's worse, not just ideologically but in terms of vision and competence?
tachikoma: we should try to avoid that outcome by building resilience, which i think comes from decentralization, on the web and in the physical world
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2 experts · 17 posts · 4h ago
Pwnallthethings SE Gyges
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“I think there is a bizarre atmosphere at the labs where there is genuine concern that the field is simultaneously under urgent pressure to go faster, and a visceral sense that it is going too fast.…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings 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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