I would not really call it 'tricky but doable', more like 'arms race google has been in for a long time'. Every time they come up with a way to improve search results, SOE companies adjust till they find a new pattern that gets ranked well. AI content and detecting AI content are both the same stats game, and never underestimate sketchy companies with a profit motive.

The third reason though : they are not work gaming. The more popular something is, the more there is to be made for figuring out how to twist the results into something you can package and sell..

Sadly, we can not have nice things. As soon as something gets popular enough, people figure out how to ruin it for their own profit.

Eh, it is okly kinda 'Boeing'. They bought a company already doing this and dangle tthe possibility of transferring to keep engineers engaged.

Though increasingly Google is just using their content directly in their search results, thus people are reading that instead of going to the sites.

We might eventually have to rethink what it means to be a student. It used to be a status symbol for the wealthy, then it was found that education produced economic productivity so it became a right, then the paperwork became a prerequisite for employment, so it became a necessity... and when something is a necessity, people will figure out a way handle it in such a way that moves them towards what they actually want : a well paying job.

Yeah.. where do they think those low low costs come from? Consumers often demand incompatible things and reward companies that give the illusion of reconciling them.

Eh, it is less that the population is 'litigation happy', and more the laws are written to be 'DIY'. Instead of regulators or police doing things, you have to 'sue' at your own expense. You can pretty easily tell which laws were drafted by industries that didn't want to be regulated by how they depend on lawsuits.

Given how many areas prohibit RC aircraft, I would say 'drones' are getting preferential treatment... just like any other money-making variant of something.

Eh, it is a bit of a stretch to say it has caused, well, anything. Cloud seeding has been around for decades yes, but in that time it is questionable if it has had any measurable effect outside coincidence. The statistical evidence is still pretty weak.

Probably not as many as you think. Airplanes are used for shipping when speed is more important than cost. While many consumers have come to expect fast shipping, pretty much anything you can buy can be shipped cheaper without a plane.

Yeah, it would probably be a fine language if not for its community... though the whole stated objective could probably be accomplished with an expanded linter. I really can't figure out who it is for, outside maybe javascript developers who want to tinker in systems programming without having to learn C. From working with it myself, I find the idea of using it in embedded or kernel environments is kinda terrifying since there is so much sugar that you can't really see what it is doing.

Or at least a language where you can see what it is doing.

Eh, if they didn't get people's attention they would not be bothering with Rust. The only real purpose of the language is so you can say you are a rust developer and all the social credit that comes with it. Otherwise they would just use Ada.. but that isn't 'cool' and you can't rub it in those C/C++ developers they feel inferior to.

Well yeah, both of them have a ton of javascript developers to spare, and they've always wanted to make an OS but don't want to learn any of the low level languages.