That seems overly black-and-white. We ban (prohibit) various kinds of speech, for good reasons; for example, it's not ok for me to go express myself by marching up to my neighbor and saying I'm going to kill him (even if I never intended to). We judge things on a case by case basis.

We live in a gray area: judges are not supposed to disregard the law and do whatever they want, but they are allowed (in fact often required) to interpret the law, and attempt to determine -- by dint of their inferences about its intent and their observations about how legally well-constructed it is -- what the outcome of a particular case should be.

It occurs to me there's a similarity between the above and what chatbots do that's labeled "hallucinating", which is that the chatbots spew lies/bullshit just as confidently as they "recite facts"... similar to the car just deciding to go forward. And the reasons are basically the same: neither system has a true understanding of what's transpiring.

"Nothing is manifesting itself as I interrogate my inner paintings."

Exactly my thought. The article math says they employ 22,000 people... which is about 21,500 more than what I'd have guessed it takes to maintain their feature set and related administrative functions.

I agree with the notion of prosecuting the guy, but saying that lawbreakers can be spuriously murdered goes too far. Breaking the law does NOT make someone ineligible for due process and other legal safeguards; without such processes and safeguards, any "legal" system would be a sham.

As families arrive at NetflixLand, they'll experience the wonder of an array of couches far and wide, exceeding the imagination!

Wow, willing to go to judicial proceedings... they must really believe in the rightness of their position!!

We have lots of ads because advertisers were always ready to pay, and by being always there and ready, ads took over close to everything as a revenue model, and generally speaking we now don't get to shop options of pay vs ads. Some people would pay given good options; for some, good price alone would carry the day, for others they'd want to not have to give up privacy (e.g. by signing in) now that we're not just an advertising state but a surveillance state. I write this not because your statement is wholly incorrect (it isn't), but it makes people sound cheap... and I think the truth is more complex.

... but even then you'll STILL have to come in physically to work at Meta, or else it's just not going to work out for you. -Zuck

Try holding the sun right next to your head in place of your cell phone. Please, do it now.