You only have to brute force build them once. Then everyone will pay tens of thousands of times over to run inference.

Americans have the right to protest till their hearts are content; however, that does not mean there will not be consequences. For example, losing ones job for protesting on company time, obstructing company operations, and being an overall general idiot. Google pays these people to do work not because they need a job, but because they presumably do one. If they're not doing it, see ya! This is exactly like the free speech misunderstandings: people rightly realize we have the right to free speech, but that doesn't mean it's without consequences. And it certainly doesn't excuse you from any other responsibilities, like the contract you sign for employment at google.

Many people are already paying to watch other people pay games such as football, which is also pretty sad.

Yeah this is one place that the 1A WOULD actually apply in the USA. Normally people cite it as a red herring because they don't understand how it works, but in this case, spot on.

While I don't love it that it's illegal even if you don't publish it, I do like that they are putting the responsibility on the generator/publisher not the creator of the AI. This actually makes some sense.

Where's Bert bot?

Technology "advances" to the point where a civilization has to expend 3.5 whatzits to acquire 1.0 whatzits, and it isn't even approximately sustainable.

woke, adj. - "Not a knee-jerk reactionary like me."

You've forgotten that the Trump-loving chuds dominate the military, even after Biden's purges. In the likely event of a future civil war, they are likely to turn traitor, refuse orders and side with the traitors. We already saw this with the Texas National Guard refusing and attempting to close the border in defiance of federal court order to keep it open. Robots remove them from the equation and ensure that they will be loyal to orders from DC. And just imagine how hilarious it will be to watch them getting turned into pink mist by AI-piloted A-10s. Losers in 1865, losers in 1945, losers in 2025.

The last company I would want having access to my span port is google. Sure they know everything about me already, but heck if I'm wrapping it up in a gift box for them. I use a VPN for ad blocking, not increasing google's stranglehold over me. It's like their VPN is exactly the opposite, a worst case scenario, of what I would ever consider.

Doesn't the constitution prohibit the making of ex-post-facto laws?

They're also great for blocking Ads via DNS.

You're right. When VPNs first came out, it was adding encryption when there was none. So, if someone had a span port on you, they could read your HTTP traffic. Now, even P2P traffic on the web is mostly SSL, so there's almost nothing added and you're probably suffering a traffic bottleneck at the VPN. Not to mention that VPN is a veritable span port for anything you're running that isn't over TLS.

It's actually Jevons. But I guess by dropping the S you make it more efficient to refer to him. So thanks to you, people will end up spending more energy to find out about the effect.

The unions were a reason that labor was so expensive, true. But that in itself doesn't dictate that you should outsource to avoid those costs. It means you should charge customers more. I don't make the rules.