So, die of skin cancer instead of Alzheimer's?

Nope, there's now a vaccine for that.

When Ukraine dissects the remains of Russian drones or missiles, they inevitably find western components. In one case, reported on here, they found an Nvidia chip inside a missile.

Is someone, or someones, inside the supply chain redirecting chips? Is this the same as the servers getting to China? Or is this merely a case of someone buying this stuff under a shell company and then passing it along?

Eh? The summary clearly states that what is important is the temperature of the top 300 meters of ocean water in the Pacific ocean. It does not state exactly how much warmer or larger this mass of water is, but it is the warmest and largest ever recorded so far...

Ideally, that would work; however, back here in the Real World (TM) there have been zero candidates of the type that you describe. I guess it is possible that some were, but we will never know.

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.

It appears you are only capable of seeing things from a personal perspective. Let me educate you on WHY adding computers was and continues to be such a huge 'positive' impact:

The computer guys figured out 'DRM'. This feature allows the manufacturer to more fully control the entire car. What I mean by that is that there are not really ANY aftermarket stereos anymore. Additionally there are more and more parts that can only be provided by the manufacturer. Many of those parts are designed to have a short lifetime. Taken together, what all of this means is that the manufacturer now has a steady income in relation to repairing vehicles. Or, in other words, it is wildly profitable to abuse your customers with locked in parts replacement... but, there is an additional benefit, the cost to build the car is cheaper than with purely mechanical components but they can charge more because it is "more complicated".

In other words, it is profitable. The reason you can't see that is because you see it from your own perspective: Why would you want to fuck over anyone? You would be an honest merchant; therefore, you do not see how being sneaky and slimy will increase your profits.

Would like to add one tidbit because I've had this same conversation at work. The professor stated they used AI to help edit only after hundred of hours of writing. In other words, they did the heavy lifting and only used AI at the end to help refine what they had already done.

Is this any different than a human editor? If I write a book, do what I can to edit it down, then go to an editor who makes suggests, removes or reorders parts, and so on, is that any different than having AI do the same thing? In both cases you wrote the words. In both cases you went somewhere else to help edit.

If people claim that using AI to edit a work is "cheating" because it's no longer your work, then the same should apply to a human editor.

The issue is that with the proper set of prompts, the entire copyrighted work can be coaxed from the AI, which is distribution. Even more problematic is that numerous prompts can evince portions of the copyrighted work, portions large enough to qualify as copyright infringement.

If the AI kept it to themselves, they could train on as much copyrighted work as they want... but then, they would not be commercially available.

You can train the AI that you use on anything you want, copyrighted or not. An AI that is to be used commercially can not be trained on copyrighted works because the AI regurgitates portions, or all, of that copyrighted material.

In this case Open Router is routing OpenAI calls, which is an open protocol for communicating with LLMs. So it is routing OpenAI calls. Now why a simple proxy with some logic for choosing the service to route to is selling for this kind of money, that is a whole different question.

"Can we get it in cornflower blue?"

Don't mock it. Cornflower blue can be valuable.

Musk's data center near Memphis, KY has been illegally using pollution-producing methane-gas generators since day one even though he said they would be temporary. He does not have a permit for these generators and conveniently, the site is located near a poorer section of Memphis.

Needless to say, the EPA has not done anything about this even with its own decision of illegality.

No need to switch to generators when you can use them from day one and not have to worry about doing anything under the current regime.

Instead of rare books, let us rare video games or computers. Let's say someone bought a rare version of a Ninentendo system (an early edition) and said, "You know what, I'm going to see what happens if I apply a larger and larger force to it. Let's see how long it stays intact."

Mind you, they did a 3-D scan of the system so you can digitally see it, but the physical copy no longer exists.

How many of you would raise a stink at destroying it?

If not Nintendo, pick something you like and go back to its earlier days where something is rare and someone wants to destroy it, just because.

One of the things people complain about the digital age is loss of information. Sure, these books "exist" in a digital form today, but what about in 50 years?

This is why physical books are still superior to digital. We can still read books/scrolls/clay tablets from centuries ago. It is doubtful the same will be said for digital books.

Guess what? If I happen to use a particular sequence of words, I get called out for using AI when I don't even know what the trigger words are! (I mention this because this type of thing happens to me a lot where I say a particular sequence of words and it triggers people in a way unknown to me previously)

In general, there are a lot of good and bad things.

(lol, CAPTCHA was 'flawed', same as your reasoning)

I am very sure it will be around for at least 5 years, and can you say the same about any job in particular? We are nowhere near self driving in a car really becoming reliable in all kinds of weather conditions, so do you expect that they will have AI up to snuff for routing planes full of hundreds of people in all kinds of weather and situations? I really don't think so myself.

For sure the demand will still be there, and it is a high rate burn out job. So if you can handle it and don't mind the stress and hours, I am sure you will have a job for quite a few years. Anything beyond five years, who knows in any job at all. But given the consequences if something goes wrong, I very much doubt that job will go away. You might get some more AI assistance taking some pressure off, but I am sure if someone gets fully trained up in the next 1-2 years, they very well could have a lifetime career. I can think of so few other jobs like that right now.