Post #4171060
2026-07-28 10:52 UTC
I mean, by all means let's hate the AI companies and work to end their disgusting campaign to pauperize creative workers, but let's not fall into the trap of siding with the media bosses who insist that the salvation of creative labor will arrive when Sam Altman pays David Zaslav for the right to cram the entire Warner catalog into Openai's chatbots:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/#inheres-at-the-moment-of-fixation
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:52
Above all, my interlocutors continue to insist that my LLM-powered, local, open source chatbot spellchecker will make me a worse writer. It's a very strange insistence. My first word processor was a program listing published in a magazine I bought at a corner store and laboriously typed into my Apple ][+. In the 40+ years since, word processors have gotten *lots* of new features, many of which I thought were useful and many more that I found annoying. 11/