Well, we’re not buying the product, so maybe they can extort us into paying to solve a problem instead.

Probably price increases to offset corporate losses.

That used to be a problem on Reddit, too. Maybe the current drama will drive more traffic to the Fediverse.

I know we’d like a Good Guy With Money™ to swoop in and rescue various corners of the internet, but I think Sir Paul has other things to do.

Let’s not forget the years of literal psychological experiments that Meta conducted on its users to find out exactly what factors led to higher engagement.

This isn’t a simple message board. This is a highly-engineered, personalized content delivery system with the goal of serving as many ads as possible.

Aerodynamics was obviously not a concern in the process of designing a vehicle that has (checks notes) literal corners.

Only 60,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. Not “half a million.”

While the total number of deaths from fire may seem insignificant to you, it is a far greater death rate than major auto manufacturers usually tolerate.

In the 1970s, Ford had to recall the Pinto over 27 deaths out of 1.5 million units sold. That’s 18 deaths per million units.

Cybertrucks are sitting at five known fire deaths per 60,000 units sold. That would be a ratio of 83 deaths per million units.

I think at some point it will come out that the corporate subscription is no different and the LLM companies have been scraping everything for training data.

I don’t think the LLM made your response better in a meaningful way. Sure, it cleaned up the grammar a little bit, but the rephrasing in a few places is not necessary.

Trust yourself to communicate without help from external software.

There are a lot of people online who think that 100% abstinence from The Bad is the only way to be good.

But if you can shift 10% of your former Amazon spending, do it. And keep looking for a way to get to 15%, then 20%, and so on.

Like, I’m probably never going to be a strict vegetarian. I love a good burger, or a nicely-cooked steak, or a big bowl of chicken and dumplings. But I eat vegetarian for more than 75% of my meals. And that’s good enough for me.

They learned it by watching Amazon.

The number of adults I know who ask ChatGPT for recipes is non-zero.

Teenagers use it like it’s a search engine. They don’t understand the difference.

AI is the only “product” that I’ve ever seen where the sales pitch is, “We made it and now you should want it, but you have to figure out why you want it.”

I guess we’ll know when his nose goes.

The article indicates that there’s a monthly fee for the “service.” So it’s not a passive income situation.

Let’s be real; C-suite positions are rarely filled by anyone who brings actual value to the company. They’re figureheads, but they’re also largely interchangeable.

And with so many CEOs, CTOs, etc., doing so much of their jobs with LLMs, that basically proves that you don’t need actual intelligence in those positions.

Playing hockey?

We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity …

Okay, but isn’t that just evidence that the theory of quantum gravity doesn’t actually describe our universe?

I’m getting real Principal Skinner vibes from this. “Is our theory so out of touch? No, it’s reality that is wrong.”

This is the correct answer. Notice that they have no compunction about punishing parents who secure gender-affirming care for their trans kids, but there has been zero discussion of holding parents responsible for their kids’ internet usage.

Far-right groups in the US have been crying “Big Brother” about everything for years because their whole plan has been to create a surveillance state where to gather information about dissenters. Every accusation is a confession with these people.

So … wait for the EU to outlaw this practice as price gouging, then use a VPN to appear to be buying from the EU?