Once, the one time 5% is spent the state will have to figure out how to do the one time 5% more than once to keep feeding the spending machine.
The problem is Fraud, Grift and run away Government spending can not co exist so they will need to do something different at some point.

If today's LLM's "automation posing as AI" is a wrong track this might be a good thing.

"This is rare in the world of today's policing." BS when you look at the number of interactions police have nation wide, the # going bad are very low. The bad ones are the exception not the norm!

"our privacy is for sale" your privacy was sold, and you were not involved in the transaction.

They just can't help but be evil and invasive.
This stuck out " and their surroundings" everything from their porn glasses, making "your" photos public for use by others and things like this are creepy.
And Meta just keeps getting creepier.

Until the political situation in Washington DC becomes more pliable($$$) again. Then it is business as usual.

At least they hope this empty feature will get their product accepted.
Their only problem is the biggest market for this product will end up harming many and helping few.

Why would this be surprising? They know if is or has been registered right?

And the supposed AI companies have chosen to throw AI(artificial Intelligence) out there for the Sales and Marketing push.
All these companies thought they were so close to AGI that a little fib in the beginning wouldn't matter!
But here we are years later still talking Intelligence when there isn't any!

When true AGI comes, I doubt that huge centralized data centers will be the main component.

There is a difference between firms buying AI resources and firms using AI resources.

might be just me but this looks more like infestation than implementation assistance. Something tells me these employees will choose the tools in their approved tool box and not the best tools for the customers job.

if you are in the position of "get out of VMWare ASAP" you did not get caught. You made a series of bad choices over and extended time frame!
When ASAP comes up you have failed!

The bill just keeps getting larger and larger each time you push off dealing with the main core issues.

There fixed the headline, So far they have only collected 500 million, half of their 1 billion dollar goal slush fund goal. Just elites creating very well paying busy work for themselves and their families that will have zero effect on workers.

I can't help but think about the cold war and the Missile Gap hysteria! Same? Different? as with many things history can sometimes be helpful.