Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained because Cassandra (famously) was right.
It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:
newstatesman.com/technology/20…
The silent coup
On 20 April 2025, an official in the British government emailed their colleagues a story from that day’s Financial Times. The headline read: “UAE set to use AI to write laws in world first”. The officWill Dunn (New Statesman)
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in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • •Yes.. (I agree .. worked for journalists selling their product and we never gave anything away for free - because then you are saying its worth nothing) but no good mechanism to access this article relatively easily.. (Do I want to subscribe to the whole #newstateman just to try this article? )
The story of what happened with streaming is that until publishers can sort out something to ease the masses into paying for content - then we are just going to have two kinds of content - good quality valuable content locked away (like academic journals used to be in libraries ) and free #AIslop.
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