If you don't want AI, why would you but a GoogleBook?

That's not a flimsy excuse, it's a plausible one. But considering "Blackstone owned" I'm not sure that I believe it.

Also, even if it's true it's "more than they agreed to".

You might ask Firefox. They've reported a few. I think most companies aren't reporting them...which is what should be expected.

Of those, Google will be the hardest to replace. At least without exerting eminent domain over patents.

What's sad is that it has taken so long to reach that decision. I thought it was clear they needed to do this back before 2000. (I'm not exactly sure how long, but plausibly while I was in high school.)

It's still illegal. Enforcement, however, has always been a problem.

There's a reasonably good correlation between bigfoot sightings and bears being present. So don't just dismiss it as hallucinations, but consider misidentification.

Tell that to McDonalds.

You are wrong. Several reporters and columnists have been important voices in the past. But quite possibly not this decade.

You're too cynical. Plenty of Slashdot readers are fans of Musk, and Slashdot it small enough these days that I doubt Musk would bother.

Musk has done good things. I really appreciate the way the Tesla pushed electric car development, and SpaceX has done good things. But those aren't recent...and even back then I wouldn't have wanted to work for him or live under his control.

However that's not what this case is about. But I hope they both lose.

If you really want safety you don't train your AI on the internet. Internet chat is where people say what they feel like without worrying about repercussions. That's not a good source of training data...except for learning not to trust what people say.

Of the two, I distrust Altman less than I distrust Musk. OTOH, I *think* Musk has become less competent than Altman. Not that that's really relevant to the case. The ideal result would be Musk being put in jail for contempt of court...and held there until he managed to make an honest statement of the case. And for OpenAI to be turned into a non-profit.

It was NEVER a piece of open software. The name itself was a lie. And that tells you all you need to know about those controlling it.

Also, the larger companies are more likely to update their own equipment. (Yeah, not always. Sigh.) But I was more thinking of small devices, often embedded, that aren't usually updated.

Not for ages. Less than a week. For many, that's not time enough to get the patch.

OTOH, it's a local vulnerability, so many systems aren't affected. I've got one that hasn't been hooked up to the internet in well over a month, and it won't be affected until the next time it's hooked up. (I may do a reinstall before then.)