That worked for Facebook/META. Create a minimally useful product, barely stay ahead of the competition, use network effects to trap users whose friends are also trapped, erect moats everywhere you can, lie to customers and government agencies about what you are really doing, value your profit over any lethal negative externalities you create, practice chicanery without fear.

Winning!

The monied interests obviously did not like your post. So here it is again.

Though the "golden age" of which you speak was less than a decade, before effective monetization was developed. And the email SPAM horrible.

Until someone writes an AGI that open sources and distributes itself everywhere, so it can never be turned off!

Even Apple has issues when their hardware suppliers change things without telling them. Also the ability of PC hardware to be used with most all cards and peripherals would become quite limited. Of course, maybe hardware vendors would be more inclined to release Open Source drivers, rather than a MS Windows Only closed binary driver which then has to reversed engineered to create a driver on Linux.

The hardware would have to be open and could not altered or if it was, always supplied with updated open drivers. Lenovo and Dell are 90% there on scale except for open drivers. But it is not in their interest, because they do not want to be AMD'd like Intel has been.

Meanwhile, the "eshittification of MS Windows" continues.

This is about both CUSTOMERS and job applicants.

Let's put it this way, if you are assigned a number on a card or required to login YOU ARE BEING TRACKED and your information is being collected.

And by the way many businesses no longer accept cash as a method of robbery prevention both by their employees and customers.

The unemployment line.

If the stuff "works" you'll get laid off. If the stuff doesn't work, you'll also get laid off.

"Works" is defined as users will accept the AI slop created, thus watching more ads, that is the actual output of most of these push to AI projects so far...

I hope your META stock is vested. Otherwise...

Yes, most of the US religious right leadership gas-lighted their followers in the late 1970s after actually liking "Roe vs Wade" when Jimmy Carter (a real Christian) instructed the IRS to remove the tax exempt status of segregated whites only colleges.

Abortion is not mentioned in the bible except for a recipe on how to perform one. Instead, the was used to drive religious (who have not read their Bible) voters to the polls "in the name of god" to protect school desegregation and most importantly for the leadership the tax except status of their white only colleges, like Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

What's disgusting about conservative religion in the US is that the leaders "just make stuff up" like "the Seven Mountains Mandate" to empower themselves at the expense of their followers and non-followers, while hiding their "born that way" sexuality or abusing their followers children.

"Bad Faith" is a good movie about all of this. You can watch the entire movie for free on Tubi.

Easy peasy. Just broadcast some old looped FOX news footage of Portland and declare a National Emergency until Antifa is defeated. And since Antifa does not exist as an organization, there will never be any election.

There is nothing wrong with...

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.[3] We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... MAGA MAGA.

You are not getting your real $$$ back... ever.

Here is a full report (link to PDF) about the criminal crypto compounds of SE Asia.

Asia is currently the leader in Cryptocurrency adoption. And the Trump administration wants the US to be the world leader in cryptocurrency. What does that tell us?

Yup. The criminal gang prison complexes are only growing larger with the growth of the "exchange your real $$$ for our fake money" cryptocurrency industry.

Yes, this is among the crimes that Cryptocurrency enables: lies and torture inside the scam compounds of southeast Asia.

And Crypto crime is a large corporate industry of fraud and pig butchering. That now uses stablecoins. Because stablecoins work as well as any other non-money to trick the marks.

their train. Woo Woo.

We got your real $$$. We got your real $$$.

No thank you.

Apparently, many potential customers do not want money that is not real money.

Learn about how the Crypto industry works: Number Go Up!

What's worse about this is that AI does not need to ever need reach "General Intelligence" to reach this outcome. Robots at the level of a WayMo self-driving car are all that is needed. And those are getting cheaper to produce everyday.

The math is easy: Let's say a robot has $100K cost, with $100K maintenance cost over a 10 year life. That's a $20K/year robot.

Will any human here work for only $20K a year?

An aside: rsilvergun, Have you noticed that your Score:5 posts are reduced to -1 shortly after they no longer current? There appears to be a "cleanup squad" that is trying to wipe out the "thoughtful history" on Slashdot. This is in addition to the "anonymous cowards" that re-post distorted versions of other authors posts.

That still does not work reliably.

Is it fixable?

So far it appears not to be...

Of course, part of the issue is that the definition of "what is AI" is purposely vague and flexible marketing....