So what they're saying is that thanks to AI, being an "influencer" might no longer be a viable career choice? I'm starting to like AI a little more every day!

They're all going to end up at Goodwill, right next to the pile of old DVD players.

Declining birthrates are happening in most first world countries. Pretty much just means that China is joining the club.
 

Usually when people talk about overpopulation they mean that there's not enough resources to go around. Space for all the people isn't the issue.

When you try to turn your television show into gay porn, there's still enough people in the entertainment industry who will warn you that you're going to alienate most of your audience and ask if it's really a necessary part of the story you're trying to tell.

Nah, turning your show into softcore hetero porn is usually a harbinger of bad writing.

Awhile back here in Florida there were some MAGA folks flipping their shit over migrant workers who were here legally to harvest crops. The farm owners literally went on the news and explained that they tried posting the job openings for Americans to fill, but got few takers. They also said that the few American workers they could hire were soon to quit or get fired because harvesting crops by hand is neither pleasant nor well-paid.

Now you might get the wrong impression that some of us "leftists" are condoning the aforementioned worker exploitation, but we're not - we're just pointing out that if your endgame is cheaper groceries, getting rid of the cheap labor is going to have the opposite effect. The idea that a large segment of our economy relies on a whole bunch of people being paid poverty wages is a whole 'nother can of worms.

Have you forgotten that public schools are a thing? Teach the kids that they'll catch serious hell for SWATting and yes, then it will be a deterrent. I'm totally for it being a crime tried as an adult, where you can be locked away for a very long time.

Well, for starters, sending in a drone or robot instead of heavily armed humans would go a long way to avoid mishaps. It also would be a whole lot less hilarious for the pranksters if SWATting just amounted to the victim telling a robot "nope, no hostage situation here, someone's yanking your chain."

I live in Florida and if you think we didn't shut anything down you need to find a better source for your news. DeSantis took quite awhile to get the memo that red states were supposed to be ignoring all the Covid restrictions.

Being able to spread a disease isn't a freedom, it's being an anti-social dick intent on causing harm to others. It's no different than if you decided to drive your car on the wrong side of the road because the government can't tell me how to drive.

Participating in society comes with rules. If you want to live in a lawless society, there's always Somalia.

"Call screening" would imply that the AI determines if the caller is a scammer before you answer the call. What TFS describes is call monitoring, with a robotic big brother looking over your shoulder. There's a lot of potential for misuse here, for example, tweaking the algorithm to be triggered by political topics, so it throws a warning when canvassers ask for legitimate political donations.

Well, if he ends up getting charged with anything, there's always asking Trump for a pardon. Maybe he'd actually do it, because you know, birds of a feather and all that.

Actually, common sense would be that if your business is doing something that's illegal in the United States, you shouldn't be in the United States. Ideally, he wouldn't be in a country with an extradition treaty either, although those don't typically tend to be the nicest places to live.

If it worked as poorly as Amazon's other recommendations, I'd imagine it going something like this:

Yellow ring on Echo Dot is flashing
Me: "Alexa, what's my notification?"
Alexa: "Notice from Amazon fertility tracking - based on data we've collected, it may be time to do the horizontal mambo."
Me: "God damn it Alexa, how many times have I told you, we're a gay couple! Nobody here is getting pregnant."