Cory Doctorow on the Right – and Wrong – Way to Criticize AI
June 23, 2026United StatesScience and TechnologyWorkFacebook IconTwitter IconEmail IconPrint IconCory Doctorow on the Right — and Wrong — Way to Criticize AIInterview withCory DoctorowWorrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. Get a discounted subscription to our print magazine today.Israel’s Young Settler VanguardE. So far, the sector’s behavior almost seems tailor-made to provoke a negative response.
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- ▪Get a discounted subscription to our print magazine today.Israel’s Young Settler VanguardE.
- ▪So far, the sector’s behavior almost seems tailor-made to provoke a negative response.
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| Original publisher | Jacobin |
| Canonical URL | https://jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-bubble-layoffs-workers-copyright? |
| Publication time | Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:44:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-04T19:00:17.888Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-04T19:00:17.888Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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June 23, 2026United StatesScience and TechnologyWorkFacebook IconTwitter IconEmail IconPrint IconCory Doctorow on the Right — and Wrong — Way to Criticize AIInterview withCory DoctorowWorrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. The real danger is AI’s bubble: a speculative fantasy built on convincing bosses to replace workers with systems that can’t actually do what their salesmen promise.Cory Doctorow on the politics of AI: “As a science fiction writer, the one thing I know to be very true is that what a machine does is way less important than who the machine does it for and who the machine does it to.” (Tomohiro Ohsumi / Getty Images)Our summer issue is out now.
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