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>cm
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they do it to protect themselves from sanctions and tariffs. scandalous, I know.
consider this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
HN's most beloved shitrag. day after day, they attack AI from every angle. how many of those submissions get traction at this point?
also, consider that a $50 smartphone can drive an ICBM.
they can see the connections, the volume, and the ciphertext being exchanged, but unless...
A) the server is compromised
B) the client is compromised
C) they can break the key exchange algorithm or the symmetric algorithm being used
...the ISP or any other MITM cannot see the plaintext. by design.
I wish the US would call their bluff and avenge those bullshit fines sevenfold with tariffs.
do we regulate any software the way we regulate planes?
operating systems? compilers? web browsers? text/image/video/audio/3D editors? video games?
certainly, but for Google, that bandwidth and compute is a drop in the bucket. at the scale Google operates, even if there were a hundred such bots (there aren't - few companies can afford to store exabytes of data), those wouldn't even register on the radar. of course, like the other social media oligarchs, Google wants to be the only entity with unrestricted access to their catalog of other people's content, but even that isn't their motivation here - "login to prove you're not a bot :^)" was ALWAYS going to happen, even without the AI bubble.
enshitiffication is unstoppable and irreversible, and Google is its prophet - what they don't kill, they turn to shit.
>I think AI-companies abusing the internet is why things are getting more constrained in general.
even before the AI bubble, every other fuckass blog with 0.5 daily visitors was behind Cloudflare, for the same reason those fuckass blogs are built with FOTM javascript frameworks - there's nowt so queer as webshits.
...had never been private in the first place.
not only is the data used for refining the models, OpenAI had also shariah policed plenty of people for generating erotica.
I sincerely wish all the folx at Google directly responsible for this particular user acquisition strategy to get every cancer available in California.
based.
as someone from a country that had reached the bottom of many slippery slopes in less than ten years, it's very disheartening to see the West following us.
rather, it is politically unmoderated. which is, of course, the pearl-clutching anathema.
okay, call me when an LLM begins to append "furthermore, I think that X must be destroyed" to its outputs.
"played a role" != "instigated". everything "played a role" there.
their fucking government did it.
>You could probably count the war in Gaza to some extent.
are you for real?