There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. That's just making the data more available. As long as it's making things better and/or cheaper for the customer, it's positive. Nothing is preventing anyone else doing the same.

Paying for priority access to the pipe is the problem.

Which is this, though? Sure, the man on the street who thinks Biden controls gas prices while Trump is president is stupid, but what do we call the person who still supports Trump, but *isn't* stupid? They're smart people, but they support this craziness. Is it fascist? Is it evil? What's the correct term for this?

In our day, we got some older guy to buy booze for us, and gave him a buck or two for his trouble. What's to stop some enterprising kids from having an adult register as them, so they appear "of age," thereafter?

Microsoft was always trying to take over. At that point they were pushing .NET as the official way to make new applications. Unlike Windows Mobile they weren't stupid enough to deprecate all other methods, so they didn't destroy themselves completely... alas.

... But it is for surveillance of the population, so it does not rise up.

When the official current AI business model fails, what else would the infrastructure be useful for?

It is already being done. Anthr*pic is already being used to spy on protestors.

Not just evil people. Stupid/slow people also like chaos because it makes other people as confused as they are. Suddenly they can compete.

But is it not the government hiring flock to do this? What use is the constitution then if the government just has to hire a private entity to do the things the constitution blocks? Then by that example, DOGE also doesn't have to respect anyone's rights. Is ICE government or a private organization paid by government? They certainly have a lot of private contracts they could utilize to get around the constitution any time they wanted.

Yes a TV network is allowed to record people in public. But they are not allowed to draw a circle around your face with a list of vital statistics. They aren't allowed to identify you.

And now in the news, "free speech" loving trump has banned CNN from the whitehouse. Republicans think free speech means they don't have to pay to tell people what to do.

They don't have to be psychotic. The defectives like chaos because it makes everyone more ineffective like they are.

Covfefe

Actually, AI hallucinations could explain a lot of the random stuff we hear being spewed by the president.

By our powers COMBINED!

Did you forget how to read halfway through my comment?

i doubt they ever expected it to take over. it really only worked well with .NET. between blender and Qt6 i can replace unity anyway. that forced startup screen was annoying.