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We must pop the AI bubble sooner rather than later | Cory Doctorow

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Show Notes

“If enshitificaiton is what you do when you’ve grown your market all you can and then you squeeze it, then AI is what happens when you run out of squeezing.”

Author of The Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI Cory Doctorow join The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the the narrative and economics of Artificial Intelligence and why the AI bubble needs to end sooner rather than later. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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