- Ticket prices are outrageous
- Concession prices are outrageous
- People use their phones during the movie
- The sound is so absurdly loud it's damaging to the ears

Tell me again what the benefit is?

So... never?

But these days they are too expensive, doubly so if you want snacks. The last time we went, it cost us $32 for a small popcorn and 2 waters.
The sound was turned up so loud that it was borderline painful. And this is not just "that one time" it's been a trend for years. All of the joy has been robbed from the experience.

I'm totally fine letting theaters die off. People are loud and obnoxious and are always texting on their phones and frankly, I can have a better experience at home.

Someone would have to explain to me what the appeal of going to the theaters is these days, because everything about them that we loved is gone.

If it's illegal to have a TV in the front of the cabin as it's too distracting, how is it legal to play advertisements on the car screen?

that you could feed the logs into and have it detect Names, SSNs, Phone numbers and other PII data and replace it with asterisks.

You know, a tool that's not a real person but has some ability to do seemingly intelligent things. There's a name for it, it's on the tip of my tongue.

Hol' up!

Did you just make the case for LLMs being actually intelligent?

...the leading technical companies in each of those industries isn't already investing heavily in AI backed by their own expertise and funded with their own money and not federal taxes.

THIS is exactly my issue.

It is "Confidently Incorrect" so often that it's frightening to think of people relying on it.

I wish this helped, but it doesn't

Does anyone remember just a few short years ago when if an industry planned trillions in expanded electrical use and generation primarily from fossils, they'd have been shut down by the mass objection of society?

Pepperidge Farms Remembers

There'll be a coin with his face on it immediately!

So this equates to "We can't even keep track of how much stuff we used without permission or purchase, so instead of us going back and doing the work honestly, we'll appease the masses with trinkets and keep the massive piles of cash for us"

Yay, it's fun to blame victims and cry for mega corporations!

The number is high for several reasons

1) They were guilty and had no clear path to victory
2) AI Companies have more money than they can reasonably manage right now
3) Letting the case proceed and getting a precedent on record would be a nightmare for AI companies even if the amount in this case was far lower.

This was about managing risk and throwing enough money at it to make it go away.

When asked to use the Kiosk, I clearly state out loud "The recent study I read shows that nearly 100% of restaurant screens contain fecal matter. I'm not touching that!" and everyone in the place freezes up for a moment. One place even handed me a pair of rubber gloves to place the order.
Seriously, just take my order. Sheesh.

Well if you are just going to say "nuh uh" to everything without reading the paper, you are basically saying "I don't need to know facts and details, my predisposed opinion is what matters" so fine, you believe what you want to believe.