AKA: mass layoffs.

AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.

it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones

Bot-sitting does not require as much attention as doing it myself requires. While the AI is handling the tedium, I can do something fun — both work-related and otherwise...

A co-worker next to me is doing cross-word puzzles, for example...

Is it? Getting improvements?

I read the summary and yeah, it uses that word but... what - specifically - does it mean? The code was "cleaned up" and "restructured". So... were any bugs fixed? Is there any real-world performance increase? In what way has this driver improved?

This is elderly code which likely has had any impactful errors discovered and corrected. Any major changes at this juncture risk introducing new problems regardless of if they're made by a human or an AI coding tool. While restructuring the code may make it easier to maintain, at this late date there shouldn't be much maintaining.

Unless there is concrete, measurable improvement, this is just PR AI cheerleadership.

This could have been done years ago but it's much easier now. The ease and power that AI offers is unprecedented and that's precisely its problem. Due to its local nature it can't be regulated either. This is why AI has crossed the threshhold as a technology that should not be used and it should be banned with severe penalties. We simply cannot handle this level of power.

A foreign company buying output from an American company is profitable to America. Selling the company itself isn't.

Let's simplify and imagine a Hollywood studio that produces say... sitcoms. Money comes in from viewership... either from advertising income or streaming subscriptions. Money goes out to the employees that create the sitcoms and the profit pile.

If the company is American-owned, the profit says in America and is spent on (mostly) American stuff. Sure, the C-suite folk may buy some yachts made in other countries, but mostly they'll buy mansions and whatnot where they live: America. If the company is foreign-owned, the profit will be spent (mostly) on stuff where its owners live.

Imagine if the Americans owned those oil companies in the Middle East. Imagine if they owned TSMC and Samsung. Foreign investment can be good, to produce liquidity allowing projects that you can't fund yourself, but in this case, Warner Bros could have remained domestically-owned.

The only reason people use AI is the prisoner's dilemma. It's worthless for us and every data center should be blocked, and their companies rendered bankrupt.

"Paramount maintained that the merger would strengthen competition rather than diminish it, creating a media company better positioned to compete with streaming leaders and deep-pocketed technology rivals."

They'd otherwise continue to struggle to compete. This time they only had* $111 billion dollars available to buy a massive collection of Hollywood properties, out-bidding the streaming leaders they will finally be able to compete with.

*"Had", as in "don't actually have, so need to sell lots of shares to Saudi Arabia despite the current America-First agenda that has slapped massive tariffs on almost every former ally.

Hahahahahaa. That's so funny.

Apparently a *lot* of people on Slashdot are completely fooled by the CCP propaganda.

And some of them are CCP propaganda, using multiple "sockpuppets" to both post and moderate.

Decades earlier — during Vietnam war — USSR was financing all of "peace" movements in the West in particular, while attacking the "Capitalist way of life" in general. It'd be quite foolish for China to not be doing the same now. Even more foolish would be for us to not realize, that they do.

And while I am still working on OpenWater and Alignable, the only thing I've gotten from LinkedIn in the past year is rewrite-your-resume scams

You mean like all those US voters that elected Trump in large part because of his "no wars" promises?

I don't know, what voters you're talking about. I voted for exactly the kind of aggressive stance Trump is showing, thank you very much. If anything, I'd like him to be still more aggressive — long years of appeasing foreign assholes have made them too confident, America's "red lines" can be ignored with impunity.

Looks like they lost control pretty quickly.

Do you seriously think, Chinese citizens have better control of their foreign policy? Or are you going to claim, America is "the same" or "just as bad"?..

Even more rigorous standards should be applied to AI due to the way people have been conditioned to trust the previously, relatively deterministic output of machines.

How many American companies have ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex?

US military is controlled by American voters, such as myself. The rest of the world, make a choice already!

What if, indeed?

I suppose they'll continue to revise and refine their models, teaching, and textbooks as information arises. As science does.

You and I are as Bonobos weighing in on if the guys who designed the SR-71 are right about this flight thing. We're no more equipped to weigh in on quantum physics than my cats are to opine on the efficacy of mRNA vaccines. Science is a process and that process involves peer-review, and constant checking for flaws. This isn't multi-level marketing or religion where we just take it on faith that the invisible sky-man is why seasons happen. Many tiers of experts test the veracity and plausibility of the work of those above and below their own level of expertise.

This is all my way of trying to politely saying the question is not useful. Come back when you are a physicist and a mathematician and wax poetic to us.