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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)jaredwhite@indieweb.social
Oct 20, 2026, 6:02 PM
I disagree with Cory's framing of all of this. 🤷🏻‍♂️
He's right that AI is just more software, nothing special. He's wrong that because software exists we can use it. Just because there's a machine where you can prompt a feature and it "writes" a piece of software doesn't mean one *should* do so. And so on and so forth.
So yes, I am anti-AI in all the ways he thinks are "weird." Sorry.
https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-technopolitics/
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)jaredwhite@indieweb.social
Oct 20, 2026, 6:04 PM
Cory: “it’s also weird to be anti-AI in the sense of ‘opposing AI because someone, somewhere used AI in a way that was gross, harmful or exploitative.’”
Um…
All Generative AI is gross, harmful, and exploitative.
Yes, I said it.
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)jaredwhite@indieweb.social
Oct 20, 2026, 6:10 PM
I think Cory D. wants to live in a world where he can have his cake and eat it too
He gets to be the knight in shining armor to rescue us from the horrible Big Tech companies
At the same time, he wants to embrace the technology produced by these Big Tech companies and say it's pretty great actually.
Fuck that shit. 💩
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Computer Chronicles Revisitedcomputerchronicles@mastodon.social
Oct 20, 2026, 6:20 PM
@jaredwhite He's just a writer. And not a particularly notable writer. He's ultimately nobody of influence or importance. But he thinks he's both.
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)jaredwhite@indieweb.social
Oct 20, 2026, 6:23 PM
@computerchronicles Well, I would say objectively he's pretty influential. We are even using the term he came up with, enshittification.
One would think he could be a great ally on our side. Unfortunately, I think his instincts are headed towards the wrong places.
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Computer Chronicles Revisitedcomputerchronicles@mastodon.social
Oct 20, 2026, 6:26 PM
@jaredwhite If coming up with a mildly obscene buzzword is influence, then sure. I still think it's safe to ignore him. 🤷
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)atax1a@infosec.exchange
Oct 20, 2026, 8:57 PM
@jaredwhite cory doctorow is the walking embodiment of a corporate ERG/BRG. he exists to mollify and subsume. so of course he's pro-slop.
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Raphael Albertr_alb@mastodon.social
Oct 21, 2026, 6:55 AM
@jaredwhite
Critique as a business model. Of course he will always shy away from being resolute when it could hurt his bottom line.
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Philip (is looking for work)mez@mastodon.nz
Oct 20, 2026, 8:29 PM
@jaredwhite There's also a massive difference between using AI to do something gross, harmful, or exploitative and AI *existing* due to those traits.
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Deb Nam-Kranednkboston@apobangpo.space
Oct 20, 2026, 7:26 PM
@jaredwhite Trying to decide whether I want to list all of the software and platforms I actively don't use--even though they exist--but it would take too long.
I'm happy to be considered weird by his kind.
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El Duvelleelduvelle@neuromatch.social
Oct 20, 2026, 8:18 PM
@jaredwhite it's not just software though - it's a system. Without the system behind genAI to steal the training data, the system that powers the training, the system that biases the output, it would be much less harmful.
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