There's your problem, right there.

There is no such thing as complete delegation. The word for that is abdication.

Slaughterbots

OK. There are malicious crawlers out there (for AI or other things) that ignore robots.txt, but the big four don't ignore it.

If your website is being murdered by crawlers, stop them.

Too obvious? What am I missing?

For some of it, yes. We compete in the SaaS space, and we switch customers back and forth with our competitors all the time. We drop 'unique data' into their databases when we're custodians so we have a chance to spot misconduct if/when the customer switches to a different SaaS provider.
We see a fair number of them surfacing in the wild, and quite often in major brand providers. These are either undeclared breaches, or something worse.
We're not about to start blowing whistles on specific cases. We're not really geared up to go to war with companies that have billion dollar legal departments.
Suffice to say, anyone who thinks their data is safe in the Cloud is optimistic at best. Their data _should_ be safe, but it is far from it.

You started out well, but you're condescending in your first point. Not likely to get a good reaction from anyone there.
Then, insulting in your second point. You're starting to look like a troll here.
More insults in your third point. Getting a real troll vibe from you now.
And then we get into the ad hominem. Definite troll.
Shame really. You might have had some good points, but your tone trashed it. Next time, get ChatGPT to sanitise your responses before posting.

Its easy to answer when you realise that the Cloud is just someone else's computer. When you stop paying them, they'll do whatever they like with your data.

In Oz, there are privacy laws that are intended to protect the data, but most of our competitors openly ignore them.

In the EU, the GDPR is intended to protect the data, but once again, no one is policing it.

I don't know what the situation is in the US, but given the conduct of the 4 majors in AI development, I expect that its pretty much nothing.

Possession is nine tenths of the law, and once you give up possession of your data to someone else, you get what you get.

The OS isn't the problem. The problem is all the CIOs who think that ChatGPT can replace all their SysAdmins.

They're too busy renegotiating their parking space, or choosing a colour for their business cards to think about security or redundancy or risk management.

The sales rep with the shiny new Beemer told them that everything would be fine, so they just signed a cheque and went back to the board with a glowing quarter report.

Anyone who uses Sharepoint is getting exactly what they deserve. And the buck should stop on the CIO's desk... but we know it won't. Some poor ass middle manager will be hung out to dry for it... again.

Thre are links on the AtCoder website for the challenge that take you to the exact problem to be solved. Its an interesting puzzle to read. At first, I was like 'there's no UI involved, of course that's why the AI did well', but then I read some more and realized that this was exactly the same kind of real world problem I worked on in the 90s to do with hard drive optimisation.

The problem they offered was not a common problem, but it was definitely mappable to some real world problems.

It demonstrates that AI can outperform the majority of humans at extremely rigidly defined tasks.

Now, apply Moore's law (or perhaps, more accurately, the modern bastardisation of it), and ask what the AI will be doing in 18 months.

I, for one, welcome our new bubble-sort algorithm optimisation overlords... mostly so that I don't ever have to code that kind of crap again.

Our websites take more Ddos style hits from anti-virus scans than anything else on some days.

Capitalism doesn't work that way.

So, we've moved on from Denial to Anger? I was wondering when that would happen.

I use ChatGPT almost daily. I use it to write short scripts that have very well defined behaviours. Sure, it makes mistakes, and I have to check its code, but it saves me a heap of time looking up obscure functions. And it comments its code quite nicely. Sometimes, the comments are a bit inane, but I've seen so much uncommented code in my life, seeing any comments at all is a breath of fresh air.

I think that the mistake people make is that they assume that if ChatGPT can write a good 10 line function, then it can write a good 1000 line suite of functions. It cannot.

Its a tool, and it does very well when it is used in the context in which it performs. The wrong tool will do poorly at any task.

I would estimate that ChatGPT saves me about 5-6 hours a week. Time that I can spend on my higher skills rather than my grunt code-monkey skills.

We completely dumped M$ Office in favour of LibreOffice a couple of years ago. The transition was relatively painless... certainly easier than upgrading to the next iteration of Office.

As October approaches, I'm starting to feel that maybe this is the time to switch the bulk of our gear to Linux. In the past, the hesitancy to upgrade to the next M$OS was mostly about defects and transition costs, but this year, there is an insidious feeling of anxiety that to continue with Microsoft will be a mistake. We have a few skills with Linux, and are using it for some rudimentary systems (eg soft routers, phone systems, etc).

Perhaps the time has come to bite the bullet and put it on the desktop.

I'm too old for this sh!t.

If your business model relies on traffic sent to you by an advertising company, your income stream is pretty fragile.

The bigger concern is the consolidation of human knowledge into a capitalist organisation (eg Alphabet).

When websites collapse due to loss of revenue from ad traffic, the training resources for AI will evaporate too.

The tension between the two is palpable. I expect that the balance point between the two will be completely unfit to service either.

AI simulates an intelligent response to any question. Much like most of humanity.

What's the problem?