Sure I can have a conversation with an AI. And it will start telling me that incorrect things I mention are actually facts. And it will run with that until I either notice that is has gone off the rails or I end up with full blown delusions and my life goes off the rails. If I am depressed to begin with the AI will even happily guide me to suicide. What a great conversation. And if I ask it a question it might come back with a wrong answer and back it up by citing sources that do not exist. Why wouldn't I want this in my life?

As for image generators, that technology sucks, too. Two days ago I was goofing around and generated an image based on the face of a famous actress. It gave her pronounced freckles, which said actress does not have. There were playing cards in the picture and it rendered them with garbled letters and mixed symbols in the cards. I was nonplussed.

This stuff is mostly junk. The AI companies can come up with amazing examples of the capabilities of AI because they coded the damned things. But in the real world it's just slop, over and over.

When Grok was asked who were the worst purveyors of "misinformation" was on Twitter and came back with Musk, minutes later Musk said that would be taken care of. In fact, Musk had Grok blocked from reaching sites which were critical of Musk and his lies.

So there's the truth.

So instead we need to allow a compromised federal government to enrich el Bunko; there are a lot of energy projects in need of federal approval, each of which will cost them dearly and allow el Bunko to peg his Grift-O-Meter again.

It would direct the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether state AI laws that "require alterations to the truthful outputs of AI models" are blocked by the FTC Act.

And of course, guess who gets to decide what is "truthful".

Someone needs to explain why Republicans are so afraid of the truth.

You seem to be assuming that el Bunko is doing this for something other than money. Look at the list of "contributors" to his East Wing destruction: Apple, nVidia, Oracle, etc. They are all big tech companies and they all love H1-Bs. I don't know if el Bunko is paying them back or doing it in expectation of future contributions to his whims (most importantly his wealth). My guess is both. Why H1-Bs? Because he wants whatever he wants NOW, he doesn't give a flying rat's ass about investing in the future like increasing money available for education. That would take planning and implementation that takes years, nothing he is good at (is he good at anything beyond collecting rent by shaking down people lower on power curve than he?); his attention span is akin to a gnat's and so he cannot fathom it.

As usual with el Bunko, when in doubt, set the Grift-O-Meter bar as low as you can and he'll find a way to limbo under it. And never forget that those in his "businesses" widely admit he cannot read a balance sheet. That explains his bankruptcies (how does one bankrupt casinos? Who knows but he found a way.) It also explains him honking on about how he's collected over $19 Trillion in tariffs. If you do not understand the ludicrousness of that number, you missed the last 50 years, go back and start over.

Has been pushing hard for decades to get those religious lunatics into a fervor right? The Republican party actively encourages religious extremism so that they can Farm those people for votes.

It's always about the same thing. Taking all the money and leaving voters with nothing. If you're going to rob somebody blind and do it year in year out like the Republican party does you have to keep offering them something in exchange for all the economic security you are stealing.

It needs to be something intangible since the Republicans are taking all the tangible stuff like money and property and food and medicine and healthcare and education.

And that's why you will see religious freedom bills that give people the right to leave their children unvaccinated risking the lives of everybody else.

They get all the money and you get to skip your vaccines or teach your kids the Earth is 6,000 years old or whatever lunatic nonsense that isn't real you insist is real.

Before 2000 the government paid for 70% of college tuition. By 2003 after several rounds of cuts it was 20%.

Meanwhile here's Donald Trump telling us we need more immigration and h-1bs because Americans are just too dumb. Seriously Google it. That's what he said.

I wish my country would stop proving him right...

The risk of creating a viable competitor is too big so they will do pretty much anything a government wants in order to avoid being kicked out of the country.

It's not about the profit they can make in the country it's about making sure that there is never a viable competitor that could enter into any of your other markets.

Ultimately there really isn't a lot these companies do that's special. The most we survived because they're the ones who when the market was developing survived via survivorship bias. When you're talking infrastructure including internet infrastructure you are generally going to end up with some form of Monopoly forming. At least if you're not extremely careful to enforce competition. And I don't think there's a country on planet Earth that does that

Given that scalpers will no longer be able to sell their tickets online (as the police would notice) and will have to go back to selling them off street corners this will in fact do a lot to alleviate the problem

In the blue States it's generally individual cops getting caught doing it. Albeit a lot but still individual cops.

In the red States it's coming down from the top that's the difference. It's because corruption at the top is more common in a red state than a blue state.

This is to be expected if you understand how left and right wing politics work.

In a red State you have a right Wing state. So you have people that are prone to hierarchical structures and obedience.

That's going to encourage corruption because the people at the top will view themselves as being absolutely in charge and the people beneath them will encourage that view. It's why Trump can get away with committing so many crimes and the public still loves him.

A hierarchical command structure versus a democratic command structure is going to lend itself to top down corruption more often and the corruption is going to be worse. There is just no getting away from that or the consequences of right-wing politics.

No they didn't. Measles are cropping up in religious communities, many of which have been "anti-vaxx" since we had vaccines. Example:

https://apnews.com/article/mea...

What changed were exposure rates. Someone allowed a large population of measles carriers into the country all at once without proper screenings for communicable diseases.

You do know that it is the CHILDREN of anti-vaxxers who are suffering and dying, not the stupid, manipulated parents, right?

And your point being? This is what their god wants. Let them deal with the repercussions. After all, they're better off dead.

Are actively hiding their economic data. We are going to have a 1930s style economic collapse.

All the pieces are here. We are in the middle of a industrial revolution with massive amounts of automation and technological unemployment without any significant new employment opportunities on the horizon. Seriously sit down and write out what the jobs are going to be after automation and ai and machine learning rip through the economy. You can't just go and make cars after the buggy whip factory shuts down when the car factory is also automated.

Next we have a huge economic bubble where we are spending trillions of dollars specifically AI infrastructure spending and the massive bank loans that go with it.

And we have widespread drought resulting in crop failures and increasing food prices. Even if you don't believe climate change and the water cycle breaking is the problem the drought is still real.

This is everything that led up to world war I at world war II.

We have the technology to stop this but we don't have the education and critical thinking and social structures to stop it...

Seriously. I understand the bomb squad needs robots that's a good thing. But every year a crime goes down and every year we put more cops with better weapons and more weapons on the street.

I understand what's going on with all that immigration enforcement bullshit. There's a bunch of bitter old assholes who get off on seeing people slammed into the ground.

But is there really that many people for whom the pleasure of watching a couple of Mexicans get dragged into a black van by masked goons is enough to make them A-Okay with this bullshit?

I just had to get the new fancy license and they made me take my glasses off because they're using facial recognition now.

One of the funny things I keep seeing over and over again is confused white people in the middle class pulled over by cops and harassed the same way they're used to seeing "those people" harassed.

The place where it's really showing up is DUIs. In several red states with heavy duty police enforcement there is a ton of stories about people getting pulled over and arrested and losing their license when they were Stone Cold sober. There are a couple of big scandals where the local police were just told you need to get your arrest numbers up or else.

DUI is really popular for that because the cops can arrest you without cause or proof and it takes months before it comes out that you were innocent. Meanwhile your license is suspended.

The fact that they're doing this to the in group is a massive red flag. It's a huge shift in how things work.

They are objectively bad for the economy and they know it. People are starting to know it too no matter how much propaganda there is.

Google it. It is a fact that the Republican party is worse for the economy than the Democratic party. Trickle down economics doesn't work and never has.

We have been trained to get angry when we see anyone discussing the two political parties. So it's tough to have this discussion but it's a discussion we need to have.

Because without positive economic gains for 90% of us the Republican party has to give voters some reason to vote for them.

Yes homophobia and racism and transphobia will always be good old standbys but religion is fading in America. It's just not bringing the numbers in that it used to.

So they are pivoting to crackpottery with anti-vax being the big one.