I can at least respect Cage's work ethic. He's a weirdo, but when he blew all his cash on absurd things, instead of just declaring bankruptcy and fading into the sunset he decided to take every possible job that came his way, in whatever quantity that entailed. Some good. some horrible. most meh.
I've got "normal" friends who would shy away from that level of fix.

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except: why produce anything of value if AI is simply going to suck it up and reserve it to people? Why spend time on "original reporting, proprietary data, real expertise, or genuinely distinctive analysis" if in the end, everyone will ask AI and AI will repackage your work?

The only issue , though, is as we go forward. The quality of results will fall off. If a website or forum can't get anything but AI scouring it, they'll simply cease to exist, and AI output ( based on input) will fall off considerably.

Klarna always sounds to me like something a Klingon would say.
"Klaaaaaaarna" as he runs towards you with one of those funky Klingon blades.

At some point, any given channel will go from "trusted recommendations" to "they're shilling for a company". And once you lose that authenticity, you're just another commercial in a long lifespan of commercial advertising everywhere.

You seem like a reasonable person. Thank you. There seems to be far too little of that now.

Speaking as a Californian, nothing good comes from continual one party voting. I'm assuming someone in a completely Red state would also agree with that assessment. Here's a hint: you want a mix between the two. Sure there's gridlock, but gridlock is better than one party rampant corruption. It's only minor corruption then.

It's a pretty good phone at a reasonable price. I wouldn't say it's superb, but it's quite decent and one of the better android phone's I've had.

"said Amy Coleman, EVP and chief PERSON officer at Microsoft. "
FTFY.

but we don't have another capitalist country to buy our stuff if we do that.

Technically, there's no floating involved.

We're also ignoring the whole "what do people do when they have too much time on their hands". I've been in that situation before, being unemployed for a period of time. Having no daily task does bad things to you. It's not only money, it's also when every day is the same as the last, you end up havinto find things to fill your time. Some people are very good at this . Others are not.

Citing a silly platitude that is not even logical does not have the argument winning effect you wish it to have.

We really need a new Godwin's law, but applied to the term "fascist".

yeah, sure, totally. One time only. uh huh.
I work public sector. The only thing that scares me more than an unhinged capitalist AI system for profit only is an unhinged AI system built and maintained by government bureaucracy. It will either be totally ineffective, or will murder you and produce documentation in triplicate to be distributed to all departments justifying said murder. Perhaps both?