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When an AI ingests a Wikipedia entry about types of soup, it's not learning anything about soup. It is learning about the word frequency in articles about soup.
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Disputed Disputed: the supplied Bookshop URL is a product page with description/reviews only, and searches on that page find no match for “When an AI ingests,” “word frequency,” “Wikipedia,” or “soup.” The official Macmillan and Google Books pages I checked likewise show only jacket copy/excerpt and no matching sentence, so I could not verify this as a real, verbatim Cory Doctorow quote or confirm any corrected source for it. ([bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai-how-to-think-about-artificial-intelligence-before-it-s-too-late-cory-doctorow/ac86987834ee96c2)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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