I've seen this happen several channels I've followed. Usually it starts with them being tricked into installing malicious software by targeted phishing or using google ads to trick people into downloading modified versions of popular software. Once the software is installed, the hackers have remote access and will eventually gain access their accounts, usually starting with Gmail. They use their YouTube access to trick people to purchase crypto or who knows what because Elon musk is saying you will get double of it back. They'll also try and drain your bank account and basically do whatever they can do to exploit whatever they can. I don't know what the case is here, but there's a good chance they got access to more than just his YouTube.

Never underestimate the power of Microsoft to not be able to implement the most basic functionality correctly after decades of effort.

None of that is mutually exclusive to using ChatGPT.

Google seems only good for searching things local to your area. Researching things has become a pretty painful experience, constantly clicking on websites barely relevant to the search or not relevant at all. And a good deal of the time the websites are borderline functionally unusable. Maybe it's not all google's fault. But it's pretty clear that google at this point is purposefully inefficient and likely optimized for profit.

I've been using DDG more and more and google less and less. I somewhat disagree that the "ask a question" format is necessarily bad. ChatGPT has proven the format can be pretty effective researching things and save a lot of time in many cases. I'm just not sure how much money there is in that (or where it comes from).

YouTube never purged any non-corporate media, and there's no shortage of content. In fact, a good deal of creators from other platforms like Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram also upload their content to YouTube. There was a brief period where they did a massive change to how things were monetized which led to some creators changing their content or quitting, but that's pretty much in the past. And whoever quit is just replaced by other creators.

It's funny to me when people say they don't watch YouTube because of lack of content, when almost literally everything is on YouTube

I do pay for YouTube, but that also comes with YouTube Music which is something else I use a lot. It's very worth it for me, and to be honest I'd probably pay more.

The ingredient list was their entire advertising campaign.

Google could have created ChatGPT years ago. But instead decided to make search and the internet in general incredibly inefficient and hard to use because they make more money that way.

But what if you are actually the real bot, and BlenderBot 3 is the one conducting the Turing test?

It doesn't have to pass a Turing test to be useful.

Plus there's needs to be an extra human involved for it to fail a Turing test.

It kinda sounds like you wanted it to fail, and thus had a bad experience. You quickly determined it was a bot, though it already told you it was. And the end result is now BlenderBot3 thinks you're antisocial.

I use Opera, Brave, Firefox, Chrome, Edge regularly. They all work fine.

Chrome is my default on Windows
Opera has pretty much been my Chrome on Linux
Firefox I just use as a second browser vs having separate windows, or sometimes primary browser on Linux
Edge is good for viewing pdfs on Windows
Brave I will probably replace Opera with ...

If it becomes useful to people, nobody will care.

Chat is fine until you try to do any kind of search (which Microsoft consistently can't seem to figure out) or copy the chat text (which can be impossible for whatever reason) or try to go back in time for a long chat (something Microsoft seemed to not even take into account). Very unprofessional professional software as usual.

I think not, because the attack only happens after you're already hacked, or logged into a hacked network. You're communicating with a malicious computer (Man In The Middle) that is just forwarding everything back and forth to the real site until it gets the session cookie. Once it has the session cookie, they can access the website without you. I don't think the technologies you mentioned can account for this. It's more a problem on the websites end. Which is one reason many websites are suspicious of logins from new devices.

Just replace whatever smart software (Roku etc..) with Amazon's. I don't see how this is a problem. Especially for people who use Amazon regularly anyway, which is a very large amount. Plus you can still connect any other streaming box of your choice if you want to ignore the "smart" software, or like the portability of being able to move the box to different televisions.

And for the conspiracy theorists out there, anything shady Amazon may do, the company that build you're existing smart tv could do the same.

Mold the customer to fit what the app wants, not the other way around