Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.

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.

If I'm reading this correctly, they're saying "Beware of chinese memes". Seems dumb.

There's no watching Videos without downloading them. It cannot possibly be against TOS to download them.

What did google train their models on? The internet, I'm pretty sure. Pot, meet kettle.

Remember Munich, with much fanfare, adopted Linux in 2003 only to abandon it for Windows 10:

In addition to politics and cost, the issue of having to work in a Microsoft-centric world are likely to kill this.

In 2003 Munich did this, and in 2017, Munich switched back to Windows/Office. In 2018, Lower Saxony also switched back to windows. They really oughtta make up their mind!

If the paywall version is an alternative to their ad spam, SEO crap, then I would gladly pay it. But if it's just an additional text box with summary at the top on top of all their glorious garbage, hell to the no

Expect it to last a good long time. Musk's weird obsession with trying to make "X.com" happen as an 'everything app' is not going to make it happen.

At least with Prince I can't type the symbol so I kinda have to say the artist formerly known as. - That was kind of Prince's point. To make it so that references to him "technically" didn't violate the bizarre name-rights clauses in his Warner Bros contract.

Next time stick a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. You'll make the world a better place by blowing your shit-eating nazi head off, Inbred KKK Garbage Boy.

To be fair, if any of the major cloud providers went down, pretty much all business, whether their coders need the internet as a reference or not would be S.O.L. So this isn't limited to ChatGPT specifically. It does speak to the vast dependency of our economy on our tech platforms though.

Let's remember what day it is: The process happened to align to take effect today, nothing more.

Nowadays, young people also see the internet as a black-box full of truth - Everything you mentioned, old people are far more likely to have trouble with. It's old people, not young people, who fell for the "Ivermectin prevents (virus)" bullshit. Indian scammers target old people, not young people, because they know that old conservatives are dumb and gullible as fuck and therefore make easy marks.

No I'm saying that if the only evidence you have, of anything, comes through a simulation, your only evidence is useless. Because there is no reason for anything you get through the simulation to conform to reality. You can't even know that there are such things as 'laws of physics' if the only way you know about them is what you experience within the simulation. You're not thinking basically enough. The fact that we know there is anything at all, that something exists, is only because the sim tells us. So we couldn't trust that info itself.

I like it the way it is now. It's infinitely better than ChatGPT and/or raw Google. But if they start using Ads, I'm out. I am paying a monthly subscription, because I felt that was better than the distraction and extra navigation caused by Ads. If they put those back in, why would I pay them again? I wouldn't. Stay ad free for paying subscribers, or else, perplexity!