Jason2357

You can report on the damage a trash person does without writing “trash person says…”. At some point, “X says Y” became a news trope and its godawefull.

Companies have always complied with legal warrants. They can challenge them, but they literally cannot refuse. Thats why companies need to actually collect less data on their customers, or protect it with e2e encryption.

Generally speaking, the consumer market has been entirely eclipsed by business to business sales. The only entities with expendable cash are businesses.

Automation has always been about de-skilling to cheaper, more abuse-able labour, and not about actually eliminating work. This goes all the way back to the broad looms and the luddites. There were still loom workers in the new factories - its just that they were children who could be worked to death for pennies.

They make everything more expensive. Power, water, ram, storage, and now the used book market will shoot up in cost as millions of books are shredded.

The Internet is still distributed, it’s the ownership (and thus also the command and control) that is super inbred. Cloudflare, Google, Aws, they all have hardware distributed in every city.

You are describing urgent vs important. Fire fighting is always urgent, but in many ways, janitorial services are often more important to your daily life.

All these MBAs that learned about the advantage of first movers in school and have so little domain knowledge they operate 100% on “we just cant be late to the table”

I am explicitly against the use case probably being thought of by many of the respondents - the “ai summary” that pops in above the links of a search result. It is a waste if I didn't ask for it, it is stealing the information from those pages, damaging the whole WWW, and ultimately, gets the answer horribly wrong enough times to be dangerous.

It has a separate llm chat interface, and you can disable the ai summary that comes up on web search results.

In the non tech crowds I have talked to about these tools, they have been mostly concerned with them just being wrong, and when they are integrated with other software, also annoyingly wrong.

It’s always been the case that propaganda only works on the target audience. Thats why it’s so interesting to look through historical propaganda - it seems unreal and is easy to see through. Bots are just personalized propaganda machines.