🔗 Refusing to use a technology because the people who developed it were indefensible creeps is a self-owning dead-end

Cory Doctorow (eventually) talking about using LLMS: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback (If you don’t care about Cory Doctorow’s history of blogging, start reading at the point where he says, “Doubtless some of you are affronted by my modest use of an LLM…”) Refusing to use a technology because the people who developed it were indefensible creeps is a self-owning dead-end. You know what’s better than refusing to use a technology because you hate its creators? Seizing that technology and making it your own. I’m conflicted, but I appreciate his insight.