RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116097712856639117

Every so often, Cory Doctorow explains the way he works and I greedily gobble up the words as either proof that I'm on the right track, or as evidence that I need to rethink my approach.

This time, thankfully, there's more of the former and less of the latter:

"The AI bubble sucks. AI itself is a normal technology:
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It's not "unethical" to scrape the web in order to create and analyze data-sets. That's just "a search engine"
[...]
There's plenty of useful things people can do with AI. There's plenty of useful things people will do with AI. AI is bad because it's an economic bubble and a grift, but not because we've created a bunch of utilities that would – under normal circumstances – be called "plug-ins"."