Many situations have proven the contrary.

I fail to see how that is significantly different than what we have nowadays with humans.

We are dependent on large corporations already, some of us just materially while others ideologically as well.

We are denying healthcare, food, water, and shelter to people who can’t afford ridiculous prices or hold the wrong social status or have the “wrong” beliefs, skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, (etc., etc.) which is essentially killing them. That’s if we don’t just outright decide to ““liberate”” some other nation from whatever arbitrary reason and start carpet bombing civilians in hospitals because a handful of terrorists are supposedly active within said nation.

Catfishing has been a thing since the inception of third-party dating, and scams were a thing since before recorded history. Lying is as old as sentience itself.

Nokia were doing insanely awesome things with their hardware, beyond basically building phones which were impervious to standard human idiocy (hi, I am an average human idiot).

I thought you were referring to Musk before you actually referred to Musk. They are indistinguishable to me.

If AI were sapient/sentient, I’d be 100% for this. Sapiosexuals assemble!

Given that LLMs are far, far from sapient/sentient at this point, however, this just makes me sad thinking about the sorry state of human interactions nowadays. I don’t and can’t blame her, though…

I hope they end up in a tie. As they both run off a cliff. And into a deep ravine. Then explode.

… can we just go with the future in which we figure out ethical self-euthanasia? I’d rather do that than have ChatGPT take care of me…

The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.

Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg…

That’s a neat parallel, we’ve also started using it as a sort of covert euphemism for “bribe,” but it’s pretty much only when discussing political contexts (go figure…)!:))

Yyyep… I sure wanted to think the XXIst Century would look different, but humans gonna hume, I guess.

I mean, other than improving education just enough to bring workers up to speed with industry requirements, the Powers That Be haven’t really changed things around. Those who own rule, the rest of us are just serfs…

From what I can remember (and I may be wrong, it’s been aeons since then), there was a time when Democracy failed and a massive orange prick got elected as head of state for one of the most powerful nations on the planet.

Fun times, those were!

In Ye Olden Days, minor Lords used to pay tribute to anyone who took up the crown/took over the lands, to get on their good side. That’s actually where the Romanian word for “tip” (bacșiș) comes from, it’s what they called tribute payments to the Ottoman Empire.

Why should this be any different? I mean, it’s Trump…

I miss the lockdowns, life was easier back then… Now the big picture just looks like a planet-wide dumpster fire…

Dunno about OP, but I, for one, am not.

Seriously! The easiest way to defeat them is to remove the value they seek. And what better way to remove the value of a good in Capitalism than to start giving it away for free?

Who cares if it’s messy or embarrassing? That sounds like 60% of my day as a biological entity.

This truly is a new age of Enlightenment for humanity!

They’re not even trying… It’s obvious this has been a strategy and not a bug, and the ““apology””/excuse sounds like a boilerplate justification from someone who assumes everyone but them is an idiot.

And, realistically speaking, there’s no reason for them to care in the first place. It’s not like everyone’s stopped using Facebook so far for any of their shady shit, and they’ve pulled FAR worse shit than bot accounts.

Everyone now understands the limits and they’ll take full advantage of the buffer before hitting said limit - be less moronic than Musk and you’re golden. It’s really not that high of a bar for them.

Edit, to dispel any potential misunderstanding: I’m not defending them with my last statement, that’s just how it is! If anything, it is our, the consumers’, fault for putting up with this in the first place!