Not serving. Linking to from within their own code.

Besides, even with text, waiting for a person to finish talking can be tiresome. "This could have been an email" being a supremely popular sentiment.

Yes. For drinking the telecoms KoolAide in the first place. Unfortunately, nobody could have foreseen cellular networks "going dark" in rural areas upon the cutover to 4/5G. Right where the utility would most depend on wireless meter reading.

... is always lying to me. In that sense, it's not much different than my wife. So I don't really see a problem with such relationships.

... my local utility doesn't make me suffer through a major inclement weather event in order to experience an outage.

Just a few extra people plugging in their Teslas is all it takes.

... it resembles a cat.

That sort of misses the whole "involuntary" part of the definition.

"She's got huge tracts of land!"

That's not an argument.

"Yeah, that guy is dead now. We have a pretty solid idea who did it. But not sure if that'll make him alive again, so let's not bother with catching them."

Well, I don't think its irrelevant. I learned years ago that the US has power outages regularly, and much of the developed world, such as Europe, does not. Europeans coming here and experiencing this are appalled. We should be appalled, but are used to it. There's really no excuse, it just isn't that hard, other than being short on generating power. We need to build more of those over a more diverse area so we don't need quite so much long distance transmission.

When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal, but an authoritarian government can enforce laws against anyone it likes. This isn't about stopping companion bots, it's about creating an excuse to stomp down on anyone They want who is using the latest tool.

That's the 1934 legislation (also included telephony). Since then, modified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to include broadband. And the beloved CDA (Section 230).

There's no reason Slashdot would suddenly come down hard on "infringement" by AIs except misguided general anti-AI sentiment and consensus cracking. Some people don't like AI and have seized on this as a way to stop it. Some other people are paid to say these things, to create the illusion that there is consensus for strong copyright laws. But strong copyright laws hurt almost everyone and have gone far, far beyond their original justifications. Rent seeking owners of publishers are holding our culture hostage, and it's evil.

No. It is not copyright infringement, and there's no reason to hold copyright so sacred anyway. Are you seriously wanting to protect hundred year old fairy tails from being retold? Information wants to be free.

Yandex image search left Google in the dust some time ago.