James Gleick
Person on 3 sites
Author and journalist writing about science and technology; author of Chaos, Genius and The Information.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-11-01 -
8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The rush to AI seems to be repeating the web's pathologies: devaluing workers and creators, closed standards, overheated marketing and concentrated power. (opens korrents.com)
“So far, the rush to AI seems to be embracing the same pathologies: deprecation of workers and creators; secretive closed standards; overheated marketing; and consolidation of power.”
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The European Union's Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act are a plausible blueprint for reining in the tech giants. (opens korrents.com)
“The European Union, whose governments are not in thrall to the mostly American tech giants, has provided a plausible blueprint with its Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.”
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Chatbots do not write; they rearrange fragments of earlier text, and as plagiarists they obscure their sources without transcending them. (opens korrents.com)
“Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.”
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The rush to AI seems to be repeating the web's pathologies: devaluing workers and creators, closed standards, overheated marketing and concentrated power. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Dream Hotel (opens rcmnd.app)
“I'm reading a superb new novel (Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami) set in a nightmarish dystopian near future in which people are seized and detained based on the supposed likelihood of their FUTURE crimes.”
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The Dream Hotel (opens rcmnd.app)