Bending the knee to Trump includes becoming a target, good luck with your worldwide expansions. These rich people really need less yes men, and more Les Nessman!
Now we are at the point where they are saying "everybody else is doing it" of AI development. This is just an excuse, I want to be good but everyone else isn't playing fair, so why should I. They should all be forced to play fair, this will not lead to a better life for most humans on earth, quite the opposite.
They didn't even wait for wider adoption or for it to be "cool" yet, this reeks of desperation for revenue. As long as we don't get pulled down with them, I am looking forward to the crash and burn part coming.
I wonder how they are going to "rework" the algorithm? Afterthe successful enshitification of Twitter with X, they are just looking for another conservative propaganda arm, this one pointed at younger people.
They are doing everything they can to maximize their profits and minimize the exposure of the true cost to local residents. After 30 years of these tech companies does anyone really think they give a shit about anything other than money and eliminating competition?
This is a key part everyone seems to ignore, there are levers for the inner workings of AI and it will be manipulated to bend to it's benefactors "truths", look at Grok.
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' -
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em -
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells -
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
Very much this, people think they are experts on everything now because they caught a 15 sec blurb on it in a video. The more I watch, the smarter I am! Now actually do any of it and, oh damn, I have no idea what I am doing. There is a lot of people that are screwed when this "excess" economy dries up, I am looking at you content creators and gig workers, learn some real skills or you are in for a bad time.