By the time they jack up the price the brainrot is already too far gone. You don't remember how to code anymore. You have no choice but to keep paying for tokens. Eventually you end up begging on the streets so you can afford more tokens. You rob a liquor store so you can pay for tokens and end up going to jail, where you go through rehab and are finally free of the need for tokens. But when you get out, you can never quite get rid of the desire for more tokens, always in the back of your mind... This is how you become a silicon junkie hooked on Microsoft.

These are basic social engineering attacks. People have been calling support and asking for access to other people's accounts forever.

The difference is that the bots are coded to be helpful and to take everything at face value -a human might intuitively suspect that they are getting scammed and refuse to go along with the request. You have to explicitly tell a bot about all the possible ways it can be scammed, a human can rely on intuition and experience -and the humans still get scammed sometimes.

Yes, a corporation is a device to protect individuals from liability. The fact that companies like Asbestos Corporation and National Gypsum still exist at all is testament to that.

But they smell like stale Cheese-Whiz

"Cool a bit"? If the general truth about the subsidizing of prices gets out, we are looking at a big bubble burst at least as bad as the dot-com poppage.

Investor funds and market-share-fights have kept AI prices low or free, but of course that can't last forever. I suspect one prominent but stressed AI company will spill the beans about fake pricing ("we all do it!"), putting pressure on the rest to prove that claim is false, which they'll fail, spooking investors, ending the run, and triggering a recession.

All those job ads asking 7 years of experience in a product that's only been out 3 are real! Illegal pet-eating time-travelers are working multiple jobs in parallel using Flux Capacitors smuggled from Uyghur child labor camps in Jiiihna!

Seriously, though, I met a couple of coders who admitted they lie on their resumes about stack experience and even volunteered tips on how to fake it. Lying makes me even more nervous during interviews such that I prefer to avoid it. I don't have the calm and cool genes to pull it off, Sydney Sweeney got all those.

Work-from-home immigrant AI workers are eating the pet-bots! I saw it on TV!

You have to pay for flu vaccines? Wow

Even if this is somehow honest, it risks bad P/R and fuels conspiracy chatter. I can see Google donating to a general environmental fund, but they shouldn't run specific programs. Google should stay in its lane.

Fucking dihydrogen monoxide. Terrifying stuff. Did you know that it can cause terrible burns and skin damage in liquid, solid *and* gaseous form?

I mean, First Nations people aren't native to The Americas, either, they wandered over a land bridge about 15,000 years ago.

It's in their mandate to Be Evil

Aedes aegypti is an invasive species to North America, only been here for a few hundred years, so I doubt that the food chain has grown radically dependent on them.

That site is blocking VPN clients (sus) but here's another one you can pick up at CVS:

https://www.cvs.com/shop/ijoy-...

Imagine how much jet fuel was wasted on being stupid.

This is an example of "sometimes you can be too careful".