4 hours ago
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Some articles I read on the (still fresh) Nerve website:

  • Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them \

    Altman can't stop fantasising about a world in which all the productive work is done by his software, and the state's sole purpose is to supply us – the unnecessariat – with vouchers we can only redeem for services provided by Altman's robot army. It's charter schools for everything, with Altman at the top, all wrapped up in a layer of dystopian retinal scanning.

  • ‘What’s happening is horrifying’: the rebel film-maker challenging AI’s march into Hollywood \

    While pro-Silicon Valley documentaries got major distribution deals, Valerie Veatch had to struggle to get her film1, about Big Tech’s dark past and future, into the world.

  • ‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak.
  1. Veatch’s movie, Ghost in the machine, will be presented in Vienna on 2026-06-24 during the Digital Humanism conference.