In the future
It's an R&D project, and anyone who expects quick profit is living in a fantasy world

...can be fun to make, kinda like playing a video game, but it's personal fun.
Nobody wants to look at your AI art or listen to your AI music
The main reason there is so much of it being made is to defraud publishers and platforms.
Of course, it's possible for real artists to use AI tools to help, but simply prompting an AI with a few lines is not art.

...is the proper use of the technology.
Focusing strictly on "productivity' and churning out crappy software faster is not.
We need AI that helps us create better software: bug-free, efficient, secure, maintainable, well documented, with all edge cases handled.

I will not write it, Sam-I-Am,
I will not offer colored ham!

...we are losing access to the best technology in the world while demonizing experts.
There was once a time when the best and brightest came here to invent and create, now we arrest them.
Welcome to the moronosphere.

...couldn't get any worse, they figure out the worst possible option
I guess it makes sense

Chinese engineers and scientists are smart and numerous, and really good at finding workarounds
Attempting to prevent China from acquiring tech is futile and counterproductive
We should abandon the old cold war attitudes and move toward cooperation

...is a misuse of the tech
We already have authors who do it perfectly and writing is fun.
The only reason that people want AI writing is to defraud publishing platforms.
If you use AI to write for fun, fine, but it's personal fun, like playing a video game.
Nobody wants to read or pay for your slop.

...increasingly unpredictable
But there seems to be money to be made by predicting doom
Evidently some people enjoy thinking about doom

AI cats
I see lots of ads for cat toys that feature impossibly playful cats appearing to have a great time with the toys
My cat would ignore them all

I wish this was completely true but I had a monitor I brought in from home to use on a work computer, and a mid-stage upgrade within Windows 11 caused the monitor to stop working at its native resolution and only work at 640x480. It was an older monitor and natively DVI on the monitor itself. I couldn't find a ready solution to the problem. Work ended up giving me an extra to replace mine.

I can only suspect that some kind of security setting was not being met, but either way it was really irritating.

It's a goddamn monitor. It should be compliant with video interface signaling standards and to be able to notify the system of what standards it complies with through the video interface itself or with minimal drivers that are basically just an FYI. Even if it has other features like audio capability, USB passthrough, or even some kind of software-based control of the monitor for some other reason, that shouldn't require crazy amounts of permissions to accomplish.

This sort of crap is what I hate about modern consumer electronics. It used to be that most peripherals didn't require much to function, and either software that ran at the user-level with minimal drivers or else features functioned directly onboard said device let it be controlled. This modern era where everything requires copious permissions and comes packed with malware is truly awful. And frankly Microsoft shares some blame here, for even allowing this in the first place.

..to despise Apple

CDs are digital, WTF does digitize mean here?

...the proper replacement is fiber
Not wireless, fiber

Years ago, I did a PBX installation for a company and talked to the ATT technician
He said that the company had decided to let the copper network rot
All major repairs were cancelled and the only repairs allowed were sloppy, "bandaid" repairs
In my semi-rural area, PGE is replacing power poles. The old ATT poles remain with their tops cut off
Most of the old ATT poles are leaning and rotting. Some of the phone cables are tied to trees
Even with no change in the law, the system gets worse every day. The degradation is visible and obvious