Cory Doctorow on Nostr: One way to think about AI's unwelcome intrusion into our lives can be summed up with ...

One way to think about AI's unwelcome intrusion into our lives can be summed up with Godhardt's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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