Does it though? What you say may well be true of critics, but how any of this supports your claim is baffling. Perhaps the winners were written by AI *and* were the best. Perhaps ALL the entries were written by AI. We don't know, based on this information, whether judging was good or not. We only know your prejudices.

"It does not mean LLMs are producing quality literature though. It's just further evidence that literary critics wouldn't recognize quality literature if it smacked then upside the head."

Where is the claim that LLMs produce "quality literature"? And where is this further evidence, or any evidence at all?

"Nobody wants shitware..."

If only that were true. No consumers want shitware but most tolerate it. The industry LOVES shitware, the lower the bar the easier the profit.

We're you like, held out of school or something? It's hard to believe people can reach adulthood with such a hilariously shitty grasp of basic reasoning.

It's hilarious to see a federal government sue a state for banning an insanely unregularly shitshow.

"Minnesota banning prediction markets is like trying to ban the New York Stock Exchange,"

This is your future, United States. Just the dumbest shit spoken imaginable, in the service of protecting the freedom of separating people from their money, 24/7, backed up by an administration who nakedly wants dumb people to do dumb things - oh, the ways in which such policy posture enriches them personally? Totally unrelated.

lol, shashdotters are an adorable lot, forever living in the past

It seems to me they could redirect the 10 figures a year they are spending on building a VR world no one wants or will use. Or did they cannibalize that already?

"...the court could find justification to stop business in America from being allowed to steal non-profits..."

That was not even an option in this case. The result you hoped for was for Musk to win an enormous amount of money and possibly control over OpenAI, which you would then happily see as a for-profit corporation.

"I guess I was wrong."
That's not surprising, nor is your incessant dishonesty.

There was no core issue.

I like how people assume Musk would have won if not for a technicality. The case wasn't even considered by the jury because of failure to file on time. There is no reason to believe it would have faired better if not dismissed for the reason it was.

Musk is a malignant sociopath, doing damage to people is his priority. It's really bad when Peter Thiel says that about you.

It was a civil case, there was no issue of "stealing an entire non-profit worth billions". Did you have Grok write that?

The DOGE rules? If you actually cared about a single rule "American business have to operate under" you would be cheering this decision like everyone else. What we have here is two sociopathic billionaires and a douchebag cheering on one of them. Any "seemingly intelligent" person would hope both lost everything.

"I think the right thing to have done is to revert OpenAI back into a pure non-profit..."
Of course you do.

"The ability for business people to start non-profits and pivot once the non-profit advantages have borne fruit."
Was precisely Elon Musk's plan. The non-profit status would make it more cost effective for him to seize control and exploit rapid increase in valuation.

"Non-profits get special pricing for most of the services they use, purchase hardware at discounts, get tax deductible donations from their "founders", and make a healthy business..."
Citations please. No one is compelled to even do business with a non-profit and non-profit does not mean no revenue.

"...convert to profit, and pillage all the coffers in stock buybacks and distributions. This is not wise."
Right, and that should be reserved for Elon Musk, right?

The great thing about Elon Musk failing to take control of OpenAI is that we can all see what a fraud his game of claiming to be an innovative genius is. Can't rewrite history to claim you are the chief scientist and founder when you never controlled the company in the first place. With AI we clearly see that Musk copies other people's work and makes worse versions.

Make sure you all meet in one place to discuss it some more ...

We also have the PhD system that literally requires coming up with novel new things, or at least pretending to.

And that's where we get our education grand poobahs from ...

lol what?

You do know that Americans were better readers before there ever even was a federal Dept of Education, right?