Call me nuts, but how about they just take my Doctor's word for me needing a refill of the medication?

No. The job problems are not because of AI. The "replaced by AI" is an excuse the Suits are using to distract from the actual reasons why hiring has stalled and layoffs are picking up.

Incorrect. Science is a process, if you "believe" in a claim or a result that's not Science. Science demands we constantly question and test things even when they are considered "settled." Questioning things like climate change is not Denial of Science. Refusing to question them is. Blindly following a result which caters to your desires is just as much of a problem as blindly rejecting the result.

It's almost impossible to find good sources. Most don't even tell you what sort of cooling is being used and are just shouting vaguely. Finding an article that actually tells you where the water is drawn from and where it goes is rare, because that would take actual effort to report and might take away from the currently popular "Big Tech BAD" narrative.

They were probably watching cspan and local government access channels.

Other than people buying chips specifically for AI nothing is really dependent on it though. Sure, there's a lot of Execs telling investors things about AI "adoption" but that's mostly just bullshit so that investors feel reassured that company X isn't missing out on the next big thing. And for the few who actually are using it to do actual work, losing Open AI itself is of no particular consequence.

It's almost as if there's more than one person in the US.

My guess is that it's a "mobile simulator" botfarm for hire, which rents services to people/organizations who want to run social media campaigns, artificially inflate view/follow/streaming numbers, buy/scalp tickets, bomb reviews, run SMS scams, and that sort of thing. I also suspect it's been known about for a while and they just took it down now as a "just in case" and for some easy publicity.

It doesn't take very many brutal, public executions to get people to stop.

Because before, most of them would give up after the coke wore off having accomplished exactly nothing. Now, they have managed to actually get a large quantity of pure slop shoved into a production environment which is a lot more difficult to clean up.

Because they don't want to get rid of "dark money" they just want to use whataboutism to justify using it themselves. And by "they" I mean everybody.

AI isn't intelligent, it doesn't reason or analyze and isn't capable of introspection. It's a buzzword for an advanced predictive database, and if you understand that it can do some pretty neat things. But when you buy into the marketing hype and try to use it to do things it's not suited for then you fail.

He knows non-degree hires can usually be paid less, and it also "dovetails" into the sort of anti-Liberal signalling that gives Trump a raging semi.

right, but the entire purpose of this app is for gossip and trashtalking, which are things you shouldn't do "in writing" if you're worried about it ever coming back to you.

Read up on this case. Short version: lady vanishes in Taiwan under suspicious circumstances. Hubby's story doesn't add up. But there's no body or actual evidence of foul play. This lawyer guy gets hired to poke around and ask questions but other than a fishy story and some lies he finds nothing. As a result of his publicity now Taiwan wants the suspect for questioning but even if the US and China had an extradition agreement it probably wouldn't cover this situation since they haven't actually issued a warrant for arrest (etc.)

The only new thing here since the last time he got slashdot to Press Release his story is they managed to win a "Wrongful Death" lawsuit. So IF anything is wrong with US law, it's that you can get sued over an event that has never been proven to have happened, and lose millions of dollars.