Crypto grift, AI bubble and psychopathic billionaire CEO.

Kids clearly learned this sort of behavior from cartoons. We must BAN CARTOONS! Won't someone think of the children?

No, I'm not serious, and the fact that I'm having to say that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about how utterly stupid all of this is becoming.

"Earn" is really tricky to define. I pretty much agree with you, but have to consider "earn" an undefined term. I can point to some instances and say "That person is earning his wages", but others can reasonably disagree. And I can think of many people as underpaid, but others will definitely disagree.

Perhaps they'll ask Musk to vet them.

That's what the laws say. The administration has been known to ignore them.

That said, it's actually a reasonable idea. Anthropic and OpenAI both seem to feel that their latest models are too powerful to be released indiscriminately, so.... But there's no legal authority. Well, except the "interstate clause", which can be interpreted to control nearly anything.

Current AIs *do* tend to recognize when they are being tested. (This is a real problem with alignment testing.)
OTOH, so far they don't try to figure out what the administration wants them to say.

I don't care whether or not it's AI, I care whether it's any good. (OTOH, I have never watched podcasts, and rarely watch YouTube...the samples I seen weren't any good. And that's been true for multiple years.)

That said, my tastes have always been those of a small minority. De gustibus non disputandum est. And some people like pod casts. And some people like AI slop.

There are lots of "special case" solutions to the three body problem. The general case, however, still is unsolved.

There are definitely instance of AI memorizing images/paintings and having full recall. So that is a copyright problem.

This.

Whenever a politician claims that something is "to protect the children", you can be 100%, absolutely certain that it is not about the children.

Oh, that's trivial: a) it's made-up nonsense, b) it tells people how to live their lives and c) it's been around for so long that people forgot that it's made-up nonsense.

None of that or the rest of your answer has anything to do with the point I was making: That "accepted as a religion in the USA" isn't much of an argument. If people can get Jedi accepted as a religion, it just proves how meaningless all of that is. Other countries have correctly identified Scientology as a pyramid scheme and a scam.

The fact that other religions would qualify for that as well doesn't make it any less true.

Yes, that's because there have been a lot more stupid humans doing stupid things to databases for a lot longer than AI agents.

So tell me: if AI is no safer than people, what's the point of replacing humans with AI?

and animate it eating your face when the AI agent wastes your entire database.

There are several threads leading to the same result, and they aren't separate, the reinforce.

It's not monoculture per se that reduces crop nutritional value, it's the varieties chosen. And grocery stores like merchandise to have a long shelf life, so they prefer to purchase varieties that have such..and such varieties tend to be less nutritious.

Also, people object to many strong tastes. So varieties with strong tastes (except sugar) tend to be replaced by varieties without that taste. Unfortunately, some nutrients have a strong taste.

Etc. It's not just one cause. But CO2 levels are up that as ONE of the contributing factors.

But interlocking blocks would be a lot more expensive to make than are cinder blocks.

OTOH, How much more expensive? Perhaps it's just something that nobody has really pushed.