I sometimes wonder, are people falling for it, or were they just dumb enough to think they could get in on the scam.

Corrupt together

Regurgitated press releases aren't journalism regardless of whether a human or an LLM does it

I've always wondered how willing companies would be to hike prices if subscriptions would automatically pause on a price increase, and the consumer would need to approve the new price for the subscription to continue.

My limited understanding is that the compiled shader is specific to the card and driver. So there are probably a lot of combinations.

There was an article that he was requiring inclusion in the NASDAQ index for him to list on the NASDAQ exchange.

This is already a solved problem for physical goods, what makes you think this is any different?

Its pretty unlikely that they have the record keeping to even know

It's downloaded, but this provides deminified source. Given how they often claim to use LLMs for everything, presumably no copyrights apply to the code either so their competitors can just use it.

Why shouldn't digital goods be subject to the same taxation? If you bring blurays across borders why does that incur a tarif when a download doesn't.

Aside from the general myth of privatization being more efficient its misaligned incentives - the company gets paid more the longer it takes, they aren't incentivized to hire (really outsource to) competent programmers.

The notion they have some higher moral purpose is absurd.

They make the hardware for every western smartphone camera. They also have movies, music, etc.

Given that the output of an llm cannot be copyrighted, if source code leaks these companies won't be able to assert ownership.

Actually most of the gains in the Gamestop "short squeeze" was actually retail investors piling on driving the price up. So the people who made money largely did so on the backs of later investors which does sound a lot like a Ponzi or just a typical pump & dump scheme.