Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (NYT, 6/1/2026)

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19. I've used it enough to know how it works and how tempting it can seem. And I've read thousands of

articles and studies about AI in the last 3-1/2 years, and have also read what were probably tens of thousands of social media posts about it, many of those from experts on AI, some of whom I've corresponded with on X and Bluesky, including some of the experts I've quoted here. I've also talked to a lot of artists and teachers about AI.

I've posted hundreds of threads about AI on DU. And posted a lot about it elsewhere (and been blocked by some well-known industry shills on X, but that's generally considered a badge of honor).

I have no need for genAI. And I'm not delusional enough to want to use it to pretend to have skills I don't have, or knowledge I don't have. I'm not bored or lonely enough to see any reason to chat with a machine. Its error rate or hallucination problem IMO makes it badly flawed tech that should never have been released. And of course there's the fact it's unethical and illegally trained, and all the other problems with it.

Editing to add that I've tried out text, image and music generators. I haven't tried AI for coding because I know very little code (other than HTML I taught myself years ago to build some websites).