They plain lied. It wasn't irrecoverable at all. This is, of course, standard practise (policy) with all companies. Lie first, then offer a more expensive alternative.

Politicians are squeaky clean in comparison.

My guess is its works basically same as a pet. A pet that can talk.

Pets, the world over, get a lot of love (obsessive care). I suspect many a pet-loving folks would love their real pets even more if those pets could talk.

Many open source licences require attribution and even more require the preservation of the licence.

Nobody's going to lift a finger on our behalf. That's what the thieves are counting on. Which I guess explains the vigorousness of the music industry's response to "pirating" back in the day.

You seem to think that expensive to run online-only tools are somehow equivalent to locally run tools that take only the computer you're using to run them.

When a game server stops making the company money, the plug gets yanked out on whoever is still play the game.

The spend is the problem. It's all out of proportion, insane. It's going to be a huge crash only because of how big the spend is.

Doubt it. Nothing much has changed since all the excitement began. Just more examples of smoke-and-mirrors keep popping up. eg: LLMs doing coding is a dumpster fire. Self-driving cars has gone nowhere at all.

Sounds like USA is jealous and just wants to catch up. No shortage of pro-surveillance talk all round. Especially in AI circles.

The last point is off base. They're angling to lock out alternative competition. Cement their existing positions.

And be beholden to the algorithm (with hidden controls). No thanks, I think I'd rather have at least some transparency.

Obviously that is done as part of investing in education. You don't just say, here's more money, you also say these are the skills to learn for jobs that are plentiful.

Promotion is reward. If promotion is possible then people will lie their way up.

Yup, expect many random panels to be punctured in data-centre lifetime. As each PV cell fails the reverse blocking diodes would allow the string to continue providing power at a reduced voltage. Each cell is about 0.5 V. but the diodes are usually across a series of 20 or so cells. So 10 Volts would be lost per puncture.

The only reason any of this is even a discussion is because of insanity with AI bubble. Once that pops, the talk of space based solutions will vanish.

I know that both TechPowerUp and TechSpot serve some of their ads as articles. They look like news items at first glance. And of course they don't get blocked. Or at lest not by the anti-tracker tools that I use.

Download???!! That's SOOOO inconvenient. You've lost 99% of the fakes right there. I know when I talk about downloading from YouTube, most people just glaze over.

Of course 1% can still be massive numbers.