Cory Doctorow
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525 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You've just described a search engine and also the Internet Archive, and also speaking as someone who's just had a word included in the Oxford English Dictionary, it's pretty close to what the OED does.
and .
They're looking at all the words.
And they're a for-profit entity.
They're doing without permission.
It's fine.
But here's the kicker, is that the Hollywood writers' strike was not a strike against Sam Altman or Dario Amadei, right?
Who were they fighting?
David Zatzlaff, the guy who runs Warners, he's the one who wants to fire the writers.
Every time there's a new entertainment industry lawsuit against AI, these copyright lawsuits that a lot of creative workers support, they drop press releases where they say, we're really angry because the AI companies took the works and trained the models without paying us.
Okay, how does that help me again?
David Zatzlaff is the one who wants to fire me and replace me with a chatbot.
Yeah, well, that's true.
Also, he thinks that he can produce inferior outputs and it won't matter.
This is the guy who deleted a bunch of movies that people liked because they were worth more as tax credits.
He definitionally is the guy who's like, you pigs will accept whatever slop I give you and come back for seconds.
So imagine you're like behind the veil of ignorance and you don't know the particulars of these two policy possibilities, sectoral bargaining versus more copyright.
All you know is on this side, the copyright side, that's the side where you want a right that no other worker in America gives a damn about, but your bosses are really adamant that they need.
And on this side, the sectoral bargaining side, that's the right that every worker in America would really benefit from and your boss would be furious if you got it.
Which one of those is the one you should want?
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