You might not be replaced by AI just yet.
No. You can be replaced by AI even if your job does require precision and quality. At some point, the company will have to rehire people to replace those they laid off but the CEO gets to keep the bonus. And it doesn't mean they rehire you. Probably someone cheaper.
They just don't know where in the glacier it fell.
230 prevents sites from being prosecuted. So, right now, they do b all moderation of any kind (except to eliminate speech for the other side).
Remove 230 and sites become liable for most of the abuses. Those sites don't have anything like the pockets of those abusing them. The sites have two options - risk a lot of lawsuits (as they're softer targets) or become "private" (which avoids any liability as nobody who would be bothered would be bothered spending money on them). Both of these deal with the issue - the first by getting rid of the abusers, the second by getting rid of the easily-swayed.
USENET predates 230.
Slashdot predates 230.
Hell, back then we also had Kuro5hin and Technocrat.
Post-230, we have X and Facebook trying to out-extreme each other, rampant fraud, corruption on an unimaginable scale, etc etc.
What has 230 ever done for us? (And I'm pretty sure we already had roads and aqueducts...)
I'd disagree.
Multiple examples of fraudulent coercion in elections, multiple examples of American plutocrats attempting to trigger armed insurrections in European nations, multiple "free speech" spaces that are "free speech" only if you're on the side that they support, and multiple suicides from cyberharassment, doxing, and swatting, along with a few murder-by-swatting events.
But very very very little evidence of any actual benefits. With a SNR that would look great on a punk album but is terrible for actually trying to get anything done, there is absolutely no meaningful evidence anyone has actually benefitted. Hell, take Slashdot. Has SNR gone up or down since this law? Slashdot is a lot older than 230 and I can tell you for a fact that SNR has dropped. That is NOT a benefit.
The Black Eyed Peas called it.
[Sings] Whatcha gonna do with all that junk All that junk inside your trunk...
No, Big Bird is a yellow chick. Unfortunately due to a natural aversion to education nobody in the administration realised that's a literal description.
I wish I could say I'm surprised.
However, this has been a consistent pattern that goes back to the 1930s and I wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you corected that to the 1830s. Companies know that you make the most money by selling to both sides.
The instruction to "eliminate political bias" is in fact an instruction to require political bias. No government AI will be allowed to think thoughts that Trump doesn't approve of!
This will be great for Haiku, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD installs, there's not the remotest possibility there'll be binaries for these. Not because the software couldn't be ported, but because the sorts of people politicians hire to write software would never be able to figure out the installer.
I'm wondering if their new model performs better than the experimental aftermarket upgrade:
In California it's $15/day. And it doesn't include the first day.
I still can't get ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to write a decent story or do an engineering design beyond basic complexity. They're all improving, but they're best thought of as brain-storming aids rather than actual development tools.
The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Aldo Leopold
