Partner you are speculating maximum dystopia. Yet it's true.  Human population does NOT have to be billions, but could be 50-75 million and still produce servants for  an AI-master race. Sound incredible, but sadly you are more likely to be correct. Even sadder, like most who care, I'm past the age to die stopping it with the melted barrel of my Mauser-98  gracing my cold dead paw.

My ancient XEON 1240-V3 will be getting a new 500-G SSD and GF 3050 GPU .  Would not consider touching systems  24-G Crucial ram ( the bastards screw loyal hobbyists ).

This. It seems that the US has forgotten the '80s automotive malaise era. Trump has tried to start a fresh one before and it looks like this time he's succeeding.

"We the People" are an armed mobocracy , tending toward violent tyranny.  Such socialists are rotted with envy of their betters. Think ant-hill and Maoism. Corporations are sets of freely organized subscribers. Such productive liberals thrive in a (re)publican  marketplace / bazaar. Think guilds and David Packard.

Legally that makes sense. Although, I really think AI's paying content producers for providing access to their information is the right way to go, long term. If NYT is going to hire reporters to go places and find out stuff somebody has to pay for it. AI is great partially because it bypasses the horrendous mess the Web has become, but that's too good to last.

Are politically-"minded" chatbots/LLMs any more persuasive than a good encyclopedia  ?  Or reading "Foreign Affairs" /  "The Federalist Papers"?  Or pillow-talking with your best-gal on a night with a full moon  ?

Sorry Charlie.  The  19-th Century competition/trait  model of evolution is dead. It's all  genetic drift and macro-happenstance ... that is apart from trivia no fitness-criteria supports species survival. When the asteroid hits or the volcano vomits or oxygen skyrockets  or the sun farts  radiation or the earth wiggles ...  species either live or die.

Claims, predictions , circle-jerk financials and personal experience are simple ...  generating net profit to shareholders  is hard.  Post-modern *.ai companies are ( expensively ) packaging guessed text-completion  very like 2008 banks packaged insured mortgages.  Results will be the same, tho I pray  gub'mnt lets GOOG/FBOOK/AZON etc go broke rather than refinance their "exuberance". Fetterman ( I assume the next president ) seems quite unlike the Bush family.

need to ban 3D printers

Ban 3D morons.

The M.E. has a way of driving everyone crazy; you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Put HAZMAT tape around the area and warn everybody away. Leave them on their own, giving them no food nor weapons; if they bonk each other to oblivion, it's their problem, not ours. I think it's God's Insane Asylum.

Non-nuts have migrated somewhere quieter, leaving mostly nuts in place, a Sanity Filter. I'm just the messenger.

do business with Israeli gov't. Regardless of your political stance, from a business standpoint it's just asking for drama and controversy of some sort.

You may have more music than me, but how much of it do you actually listen to? I keep that flash drive mounted in my car at all times unless I'm adding more to it and I've got a a wide variety that keeps it from getting dull. Various classical pieces going back to Bach, various arias, show tunes, TV themes and even different versions of a few songs, set so that they're not together. How much variety is in that 80 Gig of yours?

Qualified to work at Boeing.

I simplified the story for ya.

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What happens when all car manufacturers are displaying ads?

It's spreading...I just read something or maybe I saw it reported on YouTube...about Jeep doing this very same type thing....advertising something, I forgot exactly what it was...but was very similar to this.