{"id":179542,"date":"2023-12-30T22:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/cory-doctorow-blasts-ai-as-a-fraud-filled-bubble"},"modified":"2023-12-30T22:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T04:24:22","slug":"cory-doctorow-blasts-ai-as-a-fraud-filled-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/cory-doctorow-blasts-ai-as-a-fraud-filled-bubble","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cory-doctorow-blasts-ai-as-a-fraud-filled-bubble2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Renowned journalist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow is convinced that the AI is doomed to drop off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course AI is a bubble,\u201d he wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2023\/12\/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai\/\" class=\"\">recent piece for sci-fi magazine <em>Locus<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctorow likens the AI bubble to the dotcom crisis of the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley firms started dropping like flies when venture capital dried up. It\u2019s a compelling parallel to the current AI landscape, marked by sky-high expectations and even loftier promises that stand in stark contrast to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned journalist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow is convinced that the AI is doomed to drop off a cliff. \u201cOf course AI is a bubble,\u201d he wrote in a recent piece for sci-fi magazine Locus. \u201cIt has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble.\u201d Doctorow likens the AI bubble to the dotcom crisis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}