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Comment Re:LE to crooks: you will never be secure (Score 1) 75

If my message to my wife isn't of criminal nature (and guess what: it usually isn't), then why should anyone else have the means to read it?

You've answered your own question by suggesting your matrimonial messages are sometimes of a criminal nature. Society needs the means to keep an eye on suspects like you two! :)

Comment Re:This is as futile as requiring Marleters... (Score 1) 115

Some of that is exempted under the legal concept of puffery. I.e. lies so obvious that no reasonable person would believe them, so no harm done. A classic example would be the old Joe Isuzu commercials with claims like their cars being "faster than a speeding bullet."

Comment Or even if users were the customers? (Score 1) 152

I wonder what social media would be like if sites simply offered a subscription option to users. Last I checked FB's revenue was about $20/user-year. What would it look like if I could pay $25/yr to not sell any and all information they can scrape from me and not use a feed algorithm designed to optimally suck my attention?

Most studies seem to indicate social media can be a net positive in peoples lives when used to foster in-person relationships. What if social media companies said "Hey, that would create value for users and we could monetize that!"

Comment Re: Ok (Score 1) 352

These AI tools cannot do things. They create text (or images or code or what-have-you) in response to prompts. And that's it!

It is impressive, and it is clearly passing the Turing Test to some degree, because people are confusing the apparent intelligence behind these outputs with a combination of actual intelligence and "will."

Ask a viral pandemic if intelligence and "will" are necessary to pose a hazard to humanity. Viruses are harmless bits of code that can't do anything or even replicate on their own!

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