Cory Doctorow
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2,714 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because so often...
AI is just a low-waged worker in the Pacific Rim pretending to be a robot.
The other one is that ChatGPT stands for Gujarati People Typing.
It's very funny.
But you see it all the time.
I mean, you know, Jeff Bezos had these stores, these just-walk-out stores that were grocery stores where you walked in and you took anything you wanted and you put it in your basket and you walked out again.
It turned out that those were not AI cameras that were assessing what you put in your shopping basket.
It was three workers per customer in India watching you over CCTV trying to come to a quorum about what item you put in your basket.
It's one thing to fake it until you make it.
It's another thing to just pretend that a person is a robot.
And there is something, again, a little on the nose about...
a program or rather a product whose main source of investor capital and whose main sales pitch is this will eliminate people and you won't have to navigate the difficulty of people.
You can, you can eliminate all the moral consideration that you would have to extend to employees or to lovers or to doctors or to whomever.
Right.
And you can replace it with software that you can just, you can just snipe at cab drivers, whatever you can,
Replaced with software, you can be as rude as you'd like to and extend no moral consideration to.
And then it turns out that it's not really a robot driving your cab.
It turns out it's people pretending to be robots remotely driving your cab, which is what happened when the crews had to leave San Francisco after one of their cars hit someone and dragged them 20 feet.
And there was an inquest, and we got to look at how their software worked.
And it turned out the way that their software worked is they'd replaced one low-wage cab driver with one and a half high-waged engineers.
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