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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/111160510428454757">Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:48 JST</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" title="pluralistic@mamot.fr"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/1478-48-20250110225240.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Cory Doctorow" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Cory Doctorow</a><div><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111160483792382641" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>For the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AI" rel="tag">#AI</a> sector, a 148-day news-cycle about how AI threatened writers’ jobs was a gift from the heavens</p><p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c?sk=28d4f52322040150651fea37a303b342" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c?sk=28d4f52322040150651fea37a303b342</a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/critihype" rel="tag">#critihype</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/EvilSorcerers" rel="tag">#EvilSorcerers</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2126060#notice-4173997">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-10-02T04:46:48+09:00" title="Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:48 JST">Monday, 02-Oct-2023 04:46:48 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111160510428454757" rel="external" title="Sent from mamot.fr via ActivityPub">mamot.fr</a></span></span><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111160510428454757">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1591745">For the AI sector, a 148 news-cycle about how AI threatened writers’ jobs was a gift from the heavens.It’s not just that there’s no such thing as bad publicity — it’s that this bad publicity was very good for AI’s narrative of being the most powerful, amazing and transformative technology since fire, or possibly language.Here’s how that works: “If the writers are convinced that AI can write scripts so well that they will all be out of a job in five years, then you should absolutely invest in AI technology, because it is obviously incredibly powerful.”And here’s how that works: “If the writers are convinced that AI can write scripts so well that they will all be out of a job in five years, then you should absolutely buy an enterprise site-license so that you, too, can fire all of your workers and replace them with a chatbot.”The term of art for this kind of bad publicity is criti-hype, wherein a critic is suckered into repeating the booster’s own claims, but as criticism.</a></label><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/160/484/068/440/666/original/7aa7015687156bac.png" rel="external">https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/111/160/484/068/440/666/original/7aa7015687156bac.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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1. For the AI sector, a 148 news-cycle about how AI threatened writers’ jobs was a gift from the heavens. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as bad publicity — it’s that this bad publicity was very good for AI’s narrative of being the most powerful, amazing and transformative technology since fire, or possibly language. Here’s how that works: “If the writers are convinced that AI can write scripts so well that they will all be out of a job in five years, then you should absolutely invest in AI technology, because it is obviously incredibly powerful.” And here’s how that works: “If the writers are convinced that AI can write scripts so well that they will all be out of a job in five years, then you should absolutely buy an enterprise site-license so that you, too, can fire all of your workers and replace them with a chatbot.” The term of art for this kind of bad publicity is criti-hype, wherein a critic is suckered into repeating the booster’s own claims, but as criticism.
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