It gets worse for social media bosses like Mark Zuckerberg, for whom AI's principal appeal is the prospect of ending socializing on social media, swapping your mulish friends for pliable chatbots who will organize their interactions with you to maximize your platform usage and thus the number of ads you see:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/#sirius-cybernetics
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Cory Doctorow
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