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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying (www.thenerve.news)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If the internet was “turned off” after 4 or so years not much would have changed, either.

That's a questionable statement that may reflect on your main argument. After all, when was the Internet "switched on"? Sounds very binary to me.

[–] joe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

To be clear, Doctorow discussed switching off AI and proposed that there would be little to no change on the world. I was just changing the technology to show the flaw in the stance.