"The UK, dubiously."

Nope, there's no law against talking people into going mad. Otherwise all our politicians would have been arrested long ago.

But instead of standard interpolation algorithms we'll use "AI" to do pretty much the same thing. Ie educated guesswork. You can't recover pixel data that isn't there in the first place.

"is blamed, and investigated for wrongdoing"

Oh really, in which jurisdiction? You sure you're not an AI bot making up shit?

That feedback only happens when they're processing input. No input- no processing. Of any kind. That's not the case with the human brain unless you think deaf and blind people have no inner life.

For a start conciousness requires something to be going on in the waking mind all the time even if just self reflection or pondering the day. Precisely nothing happens in an LLM unless it is attempting to provide output to some input whether it be a text question, image or some other data. When someone can show an LLM thinking or dreaming (whatever the definitions may be) when idle then I might change mind. Until then...

"demanding that cars use air-to-liquid synthesised fuels instead. "

I suggest you go take a look at the energy required. There's a reason nothing has yet supplanted fossil fuels - its because they're so energy dense. Unless you can magic up a 3-4x increase in grid power while will be entirely used up generating this stuff then its for the birds.

In a similar vein see: green hydrogen production.

If you think Gen-Z are big into EVs think again. They're quite happy with 2nd and 3rd hand ICE vehicles. If only 20-30% of the new car buying market wants EVs then someone has to supply the 70-80% ICE powered ones and it won't be the chinese.

The ads timings are far less obnoxious when you sign in with your google account.

Youtube is free so long as you don't mind the ads. 100% of factual stuff I watch now is on youtube though I'll still dip into TV for dramas but thats about it.

Get a refund then of either that or your graphics card. Tearing hasn't been a thing since the last century.

Wtf are you talking about? Tearing?? What kind of cheap shit equipment from the 90s are you using?

Not sure if ifs leftist so much as the bleating of aspies being forced to endure the horrors of actually being in the same room as other humans. Because their brains are missing a crucial piece of functionality they simply dont understand how social interaction works or its benefits for most people so they think it's some kind of conspiracy.

Whoooosssh....

Takes you to Oracle!

"Emotion probably does push people to a heightened sense of strength."

Anyone who's done strength training/weight lifting for any length of time knows your mood can have a small but significant effect on your performance, probably anything up to 5% difference between a really go for it mood and being depressed. And then of course there are the apochryphal stories of people lifting cars etc.