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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

But let's not fall into the trap of siding with the media bosses who insist that the salvation of creative labor will arrive when Sam Altman pays David Zaslav for the right to cram the entire Warner catalog into Openai's chatbots: pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/i... 20/

Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

Above all, my interlocutors insist that my LLM-powered, local, open source chatbot spellchecker will make me a worse writer. It's a very strange insistence. My first word processor was a program listing published in a magazine I bought at a corner store and laboriously typed into my Apple ][+. 21/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

In the 40+ years since, word processors have gotten *lots* of new features, many of which I thought were useful and many more that I found annoying. There were even some of these features that made the writers who used them worse at writing, in my (expert) judgment. 22/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

But from the very start, I knew that you couldn't just trust a spellchecker to correct your documents. I mean, I'm a *science fiction writer*. I started making up silly words *decades* before coining "enshittification." 23/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

I've been telling spellcheckers to fuck off since I learned to type. If you aren't a good writer, spellcheckers are *dangerous*, and the more "advanced" the spellchecker is, the more dangerous it is. 24/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

A few of my collaborators insist that I use Office 365's AI-enabled version of Word to work on documents with them. It's *maddening*. I estimate the ratio of good suggestions to bad ones that M365 insists on shoving into my face at about 1:100. It's practically unusable. 25/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

It's so bad that I often copy the block of text we're working on into a text editor, make my changes, then paste it back into the Word window. If I were to accept even 10% of these suggestions, my work would be made *significantly* worse. 26/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

Putting chatbots into Word pushed it from "annoying" into "enshittening." I certainly understand how relying on a chatbot to make edits to your work could make it worse. That's where *discernment* comes in. I have written more than 30 books over the past 25 years. 27/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

I have *lots* of experience defending my word choices, and not just against the mechanical judgments of a high-handed spellchecker, but also against overreaching copyeditors and paranoid publisher's lawyers. 28/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

I *know* which words I want to write, and I know *why* I want to write them - and I know when a suggested fix is a good one and when it's wrong or stupid or just plain clunky. When it comes to writing, I have discernment. 29/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

That's not true when it comes to higher math. I would no more ask a chatbot to explain "the Jacobian conjecture counterexample" than I would tell my writing students to get a chatbot to suggest ways to fix their stories: pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/d... 30/

Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

I don't know nearly enough about math to ask a chatbot to explain it, or check my work, or even assemble a bibliography of human-authored works I should work my way through if I want to learn about it. 31/

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
Epitome Tagg's Sexy Mother

I think George R.R. Martin has the right idea , writing on an old word processor and saving to floppy.

Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
Joe

Whuffie, for one.