Cory Doctorow

The financing for new models is coming from investors, and those investors are making a bet that the AI they're funding will be so good that employers can fire half their workers and replace them with AI, with the proceeds split between AI companies'...

If we create a new right to control training, that will not give creative workers control over AI training... It will give our bosses control over AI training, because they will amend our standard contracts to demand that we sign away our training ri...

Thanks to copyright restrictions that criminalize modifying apps without permission, there is no legal way for either drivers or riders to build comparison-shopping dashboards that bid out the same worker or job to multiple apps and choose from the c...

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.

A conscious being isn’t a word-guessing app that knows more words and has more computing power to guess with.

These fears (or hopes) of a nascent superintelligence that will spontaneously arise if we just give enough computing power and training data to large language models are absurd on their face.

a chatbot is definitely more like a corporation than it is like a watershed. [...] giving rights to chatbots means taking away rights from nature

Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.