That is what it is supposed to be. We don't rehabilitate in the US we PUNISH, and incidentally teach criminal techniques.

It is not what we think you are going to do with the information.

Instead, we do NOT trust you. Not with the data, not with telling us which data you will keep, not with a microphone at all.

We do not want a microphone or a camera attached to anything that connects to the internet unless we need such devices for features we consider essential.

And the words "TV on" are not essential. The 'clicker' as grandma called it, works BETTER than your claimed feature.

Not a joke. I'm aware of that feature, and that's why I said it. No idea about false positives.

No, it does not. Maybe you're thinking of Pixel Watch?

I a surprised that Captcha still work against AI.
It appears to piss them off more than they piss me off.

That is, can I demand they stop the addictive algorithms used to attract my attention?

And does that AI chatbots include AI agents? Because I would like to forbid them from hacking my accounts?

There is the possibility that these incredibly arrogant braggarts that desperately want to convince the money men to fund their very expensive engineering projects are hiding essential information from us.

But that seems extremely out of character to me. The amount of money they beg for is so immense that I cannot see them leaving any 'paradigm shifting' investment idea out of the public knowledge base.

It would be like someone inventing FTL and not mentioning it when they try to fund their SpaceX competitor.

The devices use a definition of 'most likely' as 'most likely to be what people want'.

Let me know when all this heart rate monitoring can do loss-of-pulse detection and call emergency services if I have a heart attack. That's worth paying for. Having slightly more frequent heart rate monitoring? Don't care. Not even a little.

Your link is inane pedantry. Capitalism is the word we use to refer to a free market society. The origin of the word is irrelevant.

1) Nope. Companies to not get to decide the law. Nations get to do it. Yes, a moronic nation may leave it up to the contract, but in that case slavery would be legal. He who has the power of police makes the rules.

2) I do not use social media (unless you consider slashdot to be one). But others do, and people believe it has negative influences, mainly by spreading lies, propaganda, cults, etc. Government has the right to regulate it.

3) There is no 'basic human right of freedom of contract". You have elevated something you want to something much larger. We are not talking about marriage or friendship, those do have basic human rights, but they are NOT mere contracts and are protected by other rights. We are talking about Facebook, not marriage and if you do not see the difference, I pity you.. Trying to pretend that this is a larger principle is how scumbags convince people of lies.

Basically you are believe the equivalent of 'I have the 2nd amendment right to walk around with a bucket of acid you cannot blame me if occasionally some spills."

    NOPE.

And here I was, thinking foldable phones would allow us to go back to smaller sizes. Guess I'll be sticking with my SE, which at least comfortably fits into my pocket.

Someone please bash some sense into Apple.

I'm sure there are people who want a mini-tablet in their trousers. I'm also sure I'm not the only one who simply wants a phone. That you don't have to think about every time you move or sit.

Ai's core program is to discover answers people want. That's it's reward system. It is really a reward system programmed to pick the most likely answer from a billion things in it's data set.

AI does not think, at least not the way we think. It thinks more like a colony of bees, each trying to get the honey.

It does not do "If x than y, if b than x, therefore if b than y". It cannot even actually explain it's answers. Instead it treats a request to explain as a request to come up with a plausible explanation.

We make LLMs and similar software. We do not make a real AI, it will not try to kill us.

Now, if you are afraid it is going to build a bunch of pleasure drug factories and force feed us a mix of amphetamines and hallucigens, THAT would at least make sense. Because it is a theoretical worst case scenario of an AI attempting to please humans.

So, no.

you imply some importance to social media that I just don't understand. It is a service, if you don't like it go else where or do without. I don't see anywhere a right to Facebook and endless selfies. I don't see FB entitled to anything, they are earning their profit hand over foot because morons just seem to want to give them money and tell them everything about themselves. We're at a point where we need to decide some personal responsibility. Sadly most of our race needs a guardian entity looking out for them. If our recent generations were responsible for colonizing America , we'd all still be in WV taking selfies.

If a business you are using DOESN'T provide the service you think you should get, you go elsewhere, seems simple. At what point is social media necessary anyways ? It sad that a superficial useless service is considered so important by the most F'd up generation yet. You are entitled in a manner I can barely comprehend. Solve the problem...You want to tell the company what they can and can't do you control freak. If you don't like it don't use it. It is NOT REQUIRED .

Here's the flaw in your logic. The vast majority of their customers WANT to turn this s**t off. But they put up with it up to a point or they don't. Either way, it doesn't matter as long as there are enough people who are engagement junkies who eat it up and therefore drive up ad impressions. They could lose 90% of their users, and if the other 10% increase their usage 10x, they're still ahead...

... but while the company may be ahead in that situation, society is still harmed by the other 90% not having access to a usable service. And of course, not all of those 90% will jump ship. Many will suffer silently while being harassed relentlessly by garbage posts by creators that they think you'll "enjoy".

I wholeheartedly agree that while algorithmic feeds are fine, there MUST be an opt out, and it cannot be like Facebook's "Most Recent" sort that disappears on its own every week or so. No matter how many times you tell them what they want, they shovel whatever s**t they want. It has reached the point where I almost never go on there anymore, because instead of being able to interact with the contents from my friends and groups that I follow, I'm constantly getting bombarded with mostly garbage posts and ads, with less than a 1:10 signal-to-noise ratio.

Please force them to do this, and to all the other governments of the world, please do likewise.