Cory Doctorow

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On the Media · F@#$ the AI Overlords · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

I've been thinking about that a lot because my friend Neil Stevenson just wrote this essay about writing with a fountain pen.

And about why writing with a fountain pen made him a better writer.

And he's got a whole kind of neurological theory in there.

And you read that thing about the typewriters and it's like, oh yeah, maybe being able to write faster than you can think causes some part of your writing to get worse.

It makes other parts of your writing better, I'm sure.

So I am willing to say that someone out there today, tomorrow, and in years to come will find ways to use statistical inference tools to make art that is good.

And it won't be by like writing a Marc Andreessen style prompt, you are a famous novelist, write me a great novel, make no mistakes, right?

It's going to be through having a lot of creative discernment, having a lot of iteration, having produced a lot of bad stuff on your way to becoming good.

That's how everyone who's ever made good art made it.

And it will be no different with AI or any other tool.

High quality services and outputs.

We should say that we want our healthcare to be good and our education to be good.

Remember what I was saying before about discernment.

You can't evaluate an AI's output unless you're already an expert in its subject.

That's useful if you're asking to spell check.

But like giving a kid AI to teach the kid something the kid doesn't understand.

If the kid doesn't understand it, how is it going to know when the AI is making a mistake?

Right, so we should demand high quality products and services.

We should demand high quality working environments.

We should condemn unequivocally running roughshod over environmental planning, over the wishes of communities, using force majeure to build data centers.

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