Cory Doctorow on Nostr: You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to believe AI ...

You don't have to believe AI "art" is good (I don't), nor do you have to believe AI "art" *can* be any good (I don't) to understand the reason the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is that *they* believe they can fire workers of every kind and replace them with AI:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/#government-by-spicy-autocomplete

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