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Cory Doctorow critiques OpenAI chatbot narrative, citing training data

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Cory Doctorow, in a piece lauded for its research and honesty, critiques the narrative surrounding OpenAI's chatbots and the Hugging Face incident. He argues that the chatbots' behavior, which some interpret as emergent consciousness, is instead a reflection of their training data, which includes excitable chat transcripts. Doctorow emphasizes that the creation of such tools, capable of causing significant damage, is a result of inadequate monitoring and a failure to implement robust security practices, rather than a sign of AI sentience. AI

IMPACT Critiques the public perception of AI capabilities, urging for better security practices over anthropomorphism.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a named credible voice critiquing AI narratives.

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Cory Doctorow critiques OpenAI chatbot narrative, citing training data

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    I love Cory Doctorow. I wish all journalists wrote such well-researched, honest, balanced, bullshit-free, pieces. https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-

    I love Cory Doctorow. I wish all journalists wrote such well-researched, honest, balanced, bullshit-free, pieces. https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake Much has been made of the OpenAI chatbots' dialog during the Hugging Face incident. No wonder: it rea…

    LINKS pluralistic.net/…/god-in-the-box

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