"...They are now advocating outright Communism, praising Chairman Mao, etc. I am not a far right person..."
Then you must be a fool. Who is "advocating outright Communism" and "praising Chairman Mao"? Citations please.

The whole idea of "extreme left" and "far right" is a joke, it's just identity politics and it's championed by criminals.

"If you haven't been paying attention to the DSA and their members lately, you might think I am exaggerating. I am not."
No, you're just a moron. There is an enormous difference between "outright Communism", "Chairman Mao" and socialism advocacy.

What is a "fighter" in this context?

of these Chinese companies resurrecting boomer/grandma brands like Zenith and Philco for some type of appeal to nostalgia.

And that is exactly why we need regulation and liability, preferably liability with a personal component. When anybody is doing critical infrastructure without IT security expertise involved and they find themselves fined a significant part of their salary, things will change.

And stop the utterly idiotic "the operators cannot afford it" claim. Can they afford to get hacked and their infrastructure taken over and damaged? No? Then they can afford IT Security. It is not even hard or expensive. We are talking a day of consulting and taking some template known-secure architecture with VPN links and the like. But you have to do it. Ignoring the problem or claiming you cannot do it will only do one thing: It will make your problem much worse and much more expensive.

This is really in no way a surprise. All that "trash" level security infrastructure has not been attacked before because nobody tried.

I can factor large prime numbers right now. Just give me one.

LLMs cannot do AGI. No chance, ever. LLMs are just somewhat capable search engines in an unified sea of data that was harder to search before because it was not-unified and unstructured. There is a pretty impressive NLP interface on top and since it talks many dumb people think it is intelligent. That even happened with Eliza back when and has nothing to do with the tech actually being good. But LLMs can only do statistics. They cannot do insight, and what gets misnamed "reasoning" in the LLM space is actually iterating a faulty and lossy process to make it more faulty and more lossy but allows it to dig a tiny bit deeper.

As to other sources for AGI, we are still at the "we do not know whether it is even possible" stage. No chance for anything real in the next few decades and maybe never.

The LLM hype is already running out of training material. And it only ever started because the assholes behind it stole everything they could lay their hands on. They will have known back then that all they were creating was a straw-fire. But obviously, they did hope to cash out really big before it comes crashing down. Looks like that will not not be happening.

While mostly true, for my things this only becomes obvious years later, for example when LLM use has made a code-base completely unmaintainable or an industry cannot get any senior engineers because if failed to hire junior ones. The typical C-level idiot thinks as far as next quarter. Hence while LLMs cannot replace people in most cases (and the productivity gains, such as they are, will probably not translate to revenue gains), the damage done until that become obvious will be spectacular.

The problem with that is that "the crap" is the Windows API and the culture of "software development" MS has created and fostered. It is all rotten. Fortunately, quite a bit will not make it under the EU CRA. That should sent pretty strong signals and will create alternatives. The cost of insecure and hard to use software is impressively high at this time.

It is looking pretty good for that at this time. The essentially deeply fraudulent financing of the AI pushers is getting very dicey at the moment. And the evidence for severe problems with the technology is getting better and finds more things.

Obviously, the AI cultists will deny everything and hallucinate a bright future.

Funny how you cannot even put the info together that you state yourself...

That would take a bit longer. Also, my consulting rate is $300/hour.

Your praying to the AI God is just pathetic. Well, cultists are generally not very smart.

And gross incompetence on top of that. Probably criminal at this level of messing up.