Perhaps we can have a follow-up study investigating whether a rolex can tell the time better than a Casio from 1984.

> The article notes that Cal State's chief information officer "defended the OpenAI deal, saying the company offered ChatGPT Edu at an unusually low price.
I wonder why they offered their product at an unusually low price - perhaps they're eager to get access to your students? You could probably have had them pay you. <Points at ball on floor>.

> What O'Brien says is bullshit.
Maybe I'm cynical but every time I see AI in the topic, all I see is an attempt to catch crumbs of attention attracted by AI marketing budget but dropped by the AI companies.

In that context, it doesn't matter if you're making barking sounds as long as you can get enough attention - just check YouTube for kids to see what I mean OR pretty much anywhere involving marketing.

> the legal equivalent of a black hole
How can we get more legal black holes? Surely a good thing for society?

And they'd be retarded for doing so given that the division-of-interest is:

* those with power / those without power (1)

(1) - no pun intended :P - although I suppose in the future, electrical power might be a thing only available to the powerful, who can say - the future is orange!

Wake up n00bs!

> i mean probably 10% of people actually understand what "50% chance of rain means"
If that's true, I suppose the weather people know it and so choose to express the outcome of their core activity in a way which is deliberately misleading. One can only speculate why this might be.

Yeap, we need a startup which makes turns farmers into nodes in a weather-prediction cluster.

ProTip: maybe separate yourself from the "it must be sunny or I'll be sad / my picnic will be underwater" mindset and things will get way better. Bonus points for moving somewhere where it's always hot - which, if any of the climate-fear is real will be EVERYWHERE pretty soon - so, passive-win! Also, cockroaches the size of cars FTW etc.

Yeap we (and by we I mean in this case POS bankers) reached the societal stage of teenager/six-year-old when the teenager realises they can actually do what they want and noone can make them do the right thing.

Why should not-getting fucked-over be a time-intensive task. If we truly had anything approaching civilisation, every person and business would take steps to do the right thing. You could be completely financially illiterate and asleep and have those who are more developed in that area looking out for you (*) instead of using your weaknesses against you.

Again, FYI: to anyone using this approach - you are a waste of air and you know it.

(*) automatically - not as a token gesture after years of litigation.

Arguably, this should be retroactive until the beginning of time as 'screwing people over' should not be a valid way to make money. Also, FYI: all y'all using this as a business model are piece of shit and you know it.

Surely if they can figure out how to make a truck drive itself, this should be easy:
  * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

> At some point we need out of the box thinking
How about we open-up the pool of things advertisers pay for to include things which have widely-acknowledged societal benefit?

Looking-through-the-window-at-another-box thinking?

> Was the Web More Creative and Human 20 Years Ago
Of course but it's not a criticism of big business - no-one could have sucked the life out of the internet in the few years of mainstream popularity - give them a break.

The important thing is they got the job done eventually and we're in the dystopian nightmare everyone was waiting for :-)

A big shout goes out to TwitterX - such a concentration of misinformation and hate-speech is not an easy thing to maintain, so super-props!