With enough duct tape and chewed up bubble gum, surely this will lead to artificial general intelligence and the singularity! Any day now.

I think it also highlights the absurdity that the stock market has become and how it directly contributes to a culture that allows for human suffering as long as record profits are believed to be around the corner.

I don’t even understand what record profits they’re expecting at this point. Their sales numbers are dropping, they’re facing stiffer competition, the carbon credits and ev tax credits which benefited tesla so much are going away, and more of their newer offerings like the cybertruck and the taxi service have been absolute disasters. Somehow the company still enjoys about a $1 trillion market cap.

Also “3D Movies” is a whole joke on its own.

It’s possible to complain about both because the improved hammer makes the guy smashing everything with it an even bigger problem. Either way it brings attention to the issue, but I have no confidence in politicians making a change for the better at this point, they’ll probably just make it even worse.

These assholes are a drain on society.

AI has been around in many forms for decades FYI

Enhanced capabilities and availability of tools make a difference. If a company gets the “brilliant” idea to “use AI” to file DMCA requests, encouraged by recent hype of AI and proliferation of many AI tools to make it easy to deploy, then it suddenly becomes a problem, hence why this article exists right now.

AI makes it easier, thus amplifying the suckitude.

That’s when my electric car is plugged in and taking up quite a bit of power.

They can stick it up their asses for all I care. That’s where they’re pulling the data from anyway.

Quickly making garbage doesn’t make the garbage good.

If a cryptocurrency concentrates into the hands of a few, as assets tend to do in capitalism, then wouldn’t proof of stake mean those few control the cryptocurrency anyway?

Couldn’t those transactions be cut off at those swapping points to fiat? I assume if a bank doesn’t support a business directly transferring funds for a particular purpose then they’d take issue with indirectly transferring funds for the same purpose and would work to close those accounts.

Yep, and they were helped a lot after the 2008 financial crisis when interest rates were dropped super low and loans were cheap. That’s a major reason why the market has been screaming for the fed to cut the interest rate as much as possible.

I’m no fan of capitalism, but nothing in it requires public schools to install surveillance software on laptops. This seems purely like an administration issue, which is often the source of problems in general, not just in schools, but also in other sectors like healthcare, where they put in stupid policies while sucking up funding for themselves and their pet issues instead of towards the core purpose of that sector.

Agreed on the snow days. In fact, I think we should reduce the number of school days (and work days, for that matter) in general.

I was already glad being out of school before widespread take-home laptops and required after-school logging in to check for homework and shit, but this AI-driven surveillance is on a whole other level. Sometimes I’m wondering if it’s just me getting old and doing the old people thing thinking things were better “back in the day” but is this current state not objectively worse, being monitored so much and having no way to really disconnect from school?

This is why the argument that paying for something would prevent ads falls apart. If they can squeeze more money out of people then they will, even if those people are paying $80k+ for the damn thing.

How is AI not buried under piles of lawsuits?

Funny thing to say after using their code to train the shitty-ass AI. Developers don’t need AI, but AI certainly needs developers.

They play the victim regardless.

I have only one credit card which I charge everything to (credit limit is more than enough at over $10k) and which I pay off in full each month and have no absolutely debt, therefore my credit score is absolute dogshit.