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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Yes, cheap slop made by humans being made by generative models - that I can see too.
And when all UI design is the same squares-and-shadows sad thing, doing that with a generative model makes sense too.
Unoriginal tasks are being optimized.
That happens with every technology, nothing unexpected, if your expectations of the future were formed by philosophy and science fiction, and not specific courses in school or university or job experience.
A chatbot won't replace humans making decisions or with roles in social hierarchy, it also won't replace humans in anything inventive or artful. It can replace any human functioning as a detail in a mechanism.
Depends what you mean by "severely changing", in some sense this is return to normalcy.