This sort of drama was fairly prevalent in the iOS jailbreaking scene even before AI. The issue was mostly that whatever exploit you found, it would get patched right away anyway, so it ultimately ended up being less about producing something neat that the average user could play with and more about bragging rights between the folks finding and implementing the exploits.

Or just buy the "smart" TV and don't connect it to the internet? I fail to see the issue here.

It's sold as a gaming console. At no point does Sony give the impression that you're buying anything buy a gaming console. Additionally, keeping the system secure is typically considered a desirable aspect of a gaming platform, since it's not really all that much fun to play online against people who are using cheats and/or hacked player profiles.

Granted, I do think gaming consoles should be unlocked by the manufacturer once they reach the end of their supported lifespan, as the hardware could then be repurposed for other uses (and wouldn't just end up a useless brick once the servers shut down).

Make that the Secretary of Christian War Crimes. Speaking of which, The Testosterone Enabled Military:

Pete Hegseth has decreed that everyone in the military, including females, must get tested for their testosterone level so he can make sure they are male enough for the Wehrmacht. There is much internal pressure to roid-up, as it were. Commander Pete has stood up his own special brigade. They are about to display their new found fighting spirit:

Commander Pee views their training on site: Aide, how come all the soldier dummies have no heads?

Aide: Well Sir Pee, the men are so hopped up on Essence of Masculinity, they not only attack the dummies, they rip their heads off.

Commander Pee: Well, sew some heads back on. I want realistic training.

Aide: That’s not a good idea, Sir Pee. The sight of an enemy dummy head makes them go berserk and they tear them off again.

C. Pee: Sew them on, Aide, I gotta see this.

The heads get sewn back on, the troops are released, the heads get torn off.

C. Pee: Now THAT is training!! Why I remember when I was in the military, we’d march 20 miles singing in our bare feet during a snow storm just to tear the head off one dummy.

Aide: Gee, Sir Pee, I’m. . . . .what’s the word ?!?

C. Pee: “Impressed” ?!? Yessir, we were MEN back then, not like the weenies we induct now.

Aide: ?!?

C. Pee: Let’s divide the troops into a Red Team and a Blue Team, let them fight each other. By God, we will get them trained up to be Killers!!! Can you feel it, Aide? Are you getting as hard as I am? Poo-Bah!!!

Aide: Ermmm, that’s Hoo-Hah, Sir Pee, and I gotta go and get the teams set up.

An hour goes by, the Red Team is one side of the battlefield, the Blue Team is on the other.

C. Pee: Aide, how come the Red Team looks like they are wearing pink jerseys?

Aide: That’s all we could find on a short notice. And the Blue Team is wearing powder blue because that’s all we could find for them.

C. Pee: This is going to be great!!

C. Pee blows a mighty blast from a whistle, the teams charge madly at each other with blood curdling screams of pure fury.

C. Pee: Hey wait a minute, how come the Reds and Blues are embracing and kissing each other. What is going on here?

Aide: Weeeellllll, it turns out that if you pump guys up with enough Male Inflate-O-Ego, the crack of dawn is not safe.

C. Pee: What?

Aide: Anything on two legs looks yummy to them.

C. Pee: Arrrggghhhhhhhh!!!

C. Pee runs into the General Staff Tent where the Red and Blue team leaders are meeting. . . . and holding hands. . . . and signing Kum-by-Ya.

C. Pee: What in tarnation is going on here?

Red General: We are having an exchange of feelings, would you like to join? Everybody, group hug!!!

C. Pee runs pell-mell from the tent: Arrrggghhhhhhhh!!! Aide, how did this happen?

Aide: Weeeellllll, it turns out that if you pump guys up with enough Tower-of-Power, they get very introspective and want to explore their inner emotional side.

C. Pee decides to go back the that Five Sided Monument to Inanity and get his hair done again. It seems not only the curl has become limp. He first visits the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Dan “Raisin” Caine. He walks into Caine’s office and closes the door, and starts to sob.

Gen. Caine: Come, come Sir Pee, sit over here next to me on the couch and tell me all about it.

C. Pee tells Gen. Caine what he just witnessed. The General puts his arm around C. Pee and tenderly consoles him.

A few minutes later, C. Pee charges out of Gen. Caine’s office and runs wildly down the hall.

C. Pee: Arrrggghhhhhhhh!!!

Gen. Caine charges out of the office in nothing but a powder blue bra and tastefully matching panties.

Gen. Caine: Sir Pee please come back. I promise I will still respect you in the morning!!

A NYT reporter happens to witness the scene along with his chaperone.

C. Pee goes home that evening. His wife asks him up to bed in the hopes of making him feel manly again. She sits suggestively on the bed. C. Pee starts undressing.

Wife: Sir Pee . . . . if you are going to wear my things, please choose the black bra and panties next time. I’m rather partial to the pink.

C. Pee: Arrrggghhhhhhhh!!!

The article headline the next day in the NYT:

                        C. Pee Confronts his Sexual Confusion!!

When asked about the Pentagon “incident” later at a press conference:

la Presidenta: The reporter didn’t see what he saw. It was. . . . .it was. . . . . AI. Yep, that was. . . . all AI.. . . .see, just like now . . . .you cannot see me telling you that you cannot see me!!! Am I not a &%^@>^$ genius or what?

Reporter: Yes Sir, you are certainly something!!

Did you forget how to read halfway through my comment?

Wow, a whole game engine?

A lot more than that uses C#, but C# didn't take over, which of course is what Microsoft wanted. But it was never going to happen for many many reasons. That's why Microsoft has to use the EEE strategy, which at least is somewhat successful for them. Their ability to use it is waning as they become less relevant, but they remain hugely influential due to their massive installed base so they can still fuck things up pretty good and will likely be able to for decades yet.

"Why are these people not stopped?" By whom? The alleged Justice Dept. which has consumed itself and lost all its best attorneys? Or the alleged administration who will look the other way for a bit of coin under the table? State laws cannot be strong enough so State AGs have little with which to fight.

"That they are doing this crap only to create the illusion of how powerful their toys are is also clear." I do not believe that is the case and right now we are on either side of our beliefs. We do not know and the AI companies are not telling us. What is plausible is that if they do not self report these incidents and they come out, then they will look that much worse. They are already losing PR battle.

They were destined to lose that battle when they opened with, "AI will make all you workers redundant." When they saw the results of saying that, then they miraculously found out that AI would create jobs. Their data centers have such an appetite for electricity that they will raise rates. Once the pols that they had paid off for "special favors" found out about that, the pols declared they were "for" the data center companies creating their own power plants.

The data center companies are not averse to that, so they are doubling down on CO2 producing power plants. That will only make the climate crisis worse. The data center companies do not care, neither does the alleged administration. Once they lock in their winnings, they figure they can buy enough air conditioning and other essentials to live out their lives.....their grand kids won't but they do not care about them either.

The AI execs also do not care. Read their writings. They figure if they create a gonzowopper AI thingy, they can create silicon versions of themselves or fix themselves not to die. Their goal is to "go to the stars". They aren't the brightest lot. You cannot get there from here, at least not in a few billion years at the speeds we can attain. No problemo, they'll just put themselves in stasis or if they are silicon, they can just exist.

I suppose no one has explained engineered systems to them. Engineered systems break down, they rarely last 50 years now, too many things can go wrong. So they'll get about 200 years out, max, and then they'll be no more, silicon or human altered selves. The burnt Earth will still orbit its star, without our descendants.

Their attempt to do that was called C#. It failed. Not everything someone tries succeeds. For example, you tried to be smart there, whoops!

Now do the USA

You just called bullshit on sometime I didn't say, clown. I never said all this were the fault of one party but YOU made it into that because YOU are hyper partisan. Get fucked with your hypocrisy.

It doesn't matter if they can really think or not, if the output is good enough.

Maybe the real story here is that despite having access to the most advanced AI models, these companies were unable to secure their own systems.

Can't forget the parody, which was incorrectly attributed to Weird Al back in the Napster days (along with just about every parody song).

There was literally nothing even slightly off topic about the GP comment.

Netflix pays ISPs to put a CDN server on their premises.

Hahhahahahahhahha

Your theory is that consumers know what's going on with their Internet access

Or anything else

Hahahahhahahha