Anonymity is disappearing, and it would appear MS is gearing up for this.

From what it looks like, given the recent push of monetizing AI bot scraping, when user traffic looks like bot traffic, they can charge for all traffic to "level the playing field", so users can pull out their wallets, solve captchas, etc. and continuously authenticate.

These will be the last to be fully automated due to safety and maneuverability. Even if you automate the highway portion, the last mile delivery and docking still needs human assistance.

Semis aren't going to be automated anytime soon, it's time that cab drivers go back to school and get a CDL.

A chat bot is not a human. It has no agency.

It IS different. A chatbot has no personhood or agency. It's a computer program, not expressions to a human being.

I agree.

Having an interaction with a computer program in no way expressing intent. The input is no more valid than the output.

I say all kinds of shit just to see what it will respond. This is a thought crime.

LinkedIn was a failure with few users until they violated privacy and started sending spam emails and invites to people's contacts.

I worked at place where sending an email to an internal email address would set off an alarm. Corporate would send phishing tests to it. I tried several times to explain that they were wasting my time and jeopardizing a live production environment, and that emails to this specific address were meant to signal a catastrophe. They didn't listen so I made every machine in the company open their fake phishing link and called HR saying I clicked on a link they sent me and somehow it must have had a virus because it somehow took over the entire building. It was a fun day. Head engineer thought it was hilarious. They stopped phishtesting.

It doesn't have to be a race to the bottom...

Playing at 2x makes a 30min video 15minutes. Scrubbing reduces it to the 30 seconds of actual content in that video.

The only time I find faster playback useful is for online courses without much filler in them.

It's a disservice to have kids focus on using AI instead of learning how to think algorithmically/programmatically, which is a skillset that transfers over into all aspects of life, including getting more out of AI.

If kids are taught to offload problem solving to AI before being taught how to think for themselves, then we've basically turned children into NPCs.

This has as much to do with AI as the perpetrators' favorite foods do.

so they make browser extensions, get good reviews then change the code to be malicious. That tactic as old as software itself.

SmartTV's do.

If you notice I never said they didn't use a a valid definition, I asked when this definition came into being. That's why I posted the etymology I did. And I stand by this not being the most common usage of the word.

*insert personal attack here*