The story says that they did the wrong thing with wide open eyes, knowing exactly what they were doing.

Exactly. They knew there was a serious problem for users. They actually welcomed that because it increased their numbers. These are really bad people. Reminds me of the opiate crisis that the US pharma industry manufactured and welcomed just the same.

You are part of the problem. Gender identity is a spectrum. Have a look at some actual Science before disgracing yourself.

Because this story essentially said that the risks of hooking people got overruled because tests showed it hooked people nicely.

Got it: You ARE a surveillance fascist. How despicable and repulsive.

LLMs CANNOT innovate. They CANNOT have ideas. They CANNOT think. They can basically just search more efficiently.

Stop projecting things on LLMs that they are not.

And you think this "ban" will help how? All it can do is make things worse. Ever heard of the Streisand Effect? Works for kids too. And it will probably make it worse in other ways too, because now some kids will try to hide that they are active on social media. Oh, and the step towards a surveillance-society is much, much worse than what social media ever did to kids. And will continue to do.

When it is the gate to the world? I think you are underestimating kids. Also note that one kid figuring it out means the while school knows a few days later...

Ok, sorry. It did sound like "LOL, L2P!".

The point is really not when it happens, but that it happens. It may have been at 6 or 7, I played last probably 12 years ago or so.

Pry your head out of the sand.

So you never heard say a "black leader" say racist things?

"White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet."

but Oracle has become buggy and with major behavior changes between minor versions, both in SQL and in configuration, an utter trainwreck my employer had to fight with 12C and beyond

Isn't Oracle's major involvement in AI just being cloud provider for place to run it? The actual AI companies would just move elsewhere, Oracle is 3% of that market.

Maybe. But above of some level of fail and delusion you do not get access to the good layers anymore. Just look at Trump.

Well, IBM was basically a zombie 10 years ago. Something will have to stake them to put them out of their misery. Fully agree on Microsoft. Their stuff is only getting worse at this time and was pretty bad before. And their cloud got hacked several times now and had really, really bad vulnerabilities were nobody knows whether they were attacked or not (which makes things worse). They clearly do not have what it takes to survive with the increased need for IT security we have today.

Life is doing long-term damage. You need to stop listening to the propaganda.