It has nothing to do with being cowards, they are robots. It's a case of saving a little money at the expense of being excluded from a lot of money.

Piracy laws are very effective... for curbing intentional piracy in businesses because they have too much to lose to break laws like these and they are basically robots with instructions to follow the law.

But they won't outlaw these, what they'd do is prohibit companies that use them from government work/contracts and the government gives away WAY too much of our money to give that up.

Not while humans have psychological vulnerabilities to exploit to maintain addiction to it, and certainly not now that nation-states and other powerful actors have realized just how damn effective it can be as a type of propaganda.

There's a reason even a giant company like Facebook has given up on trying to connect people and instead wants to serve up news feeds, articles, information, etc.

Ignorant know-nothing here. How does M and A work when the target isn't another company but an open source-focused organization/organization focused around an open-source product like Red Hat?

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Wait... there are padded stools with armrests but no back support? That's such an odd and specific mix of comfortable and uncomfortable (I'm assuming if there was a backrest it wouldn't be called a stool but maybe I'm wrong).

From what I understand, people aren't disagreeing with your insight on identifying root causes in the software development process -- they're saying car functionality shouldn't be dependent on network access. The OP comment mentioned some cars being unable to unlock at all. It's this coupling of unrelated functions that exponentially increases risk by introducing interdependence.

Tell me more. Just how many COVID vaccine microchips are activated by 5G? And will my tinfoil hat help prevent those? Should I upgrade to a thicker iron hat?

I think there's a fine line where AI is no longer a mere tool or reference but providing the actual product, whether that be a drawing, a report reflecting actual original effortful analysis and critical thinking, etc. Defining line won't be easy though.

The answer may be in your question. I'm not sure security and privacy were the primary considerations, sadly.

Like they say: markets are irrational.

A diverse and healthy movie scene is what's great for the theatre community, both exhibitors and movie lovers. I suspect economies of scale and consolidation of studios has resulted in larger scale productions, which tend to lean "safe" to protect investments (clearly that's a generalization, but there is definitely a growing sense of "meh" whenever a new movie comes out).

People want to be taken for a journey with an original and engaging story, not just more franchise installments. "Joker: Folie à Deux, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Transformers One, and Deadpool & Wolverine" All of those are sequels/franchise movies. It feels like movies as ART is dead and it's all sequels/entertainment. Basically, movies have turned into explody novellas.

Agreed. Of course it's expected to be "materially better", otherwise what's the point of releasing a new version? It's not like ChatGPT is MS Office, with incumbent accounts locked in and money to be made with new versions. This "news" isn't really news.

Maybe a technique like this could be used for overcoming very specific "air gap" scenarios, like in some James Bond movie.

As Gabe Newell said about piracy a decade ago: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."