Even if this was true (which is dubious at best considering the constant conservative whining about cancel culture) This would be a clear cut example of a PRIVATE company exercising it's rights to deliver to it's own users based it's own internal classification of what counts as junk mail.

The standard conservative answer to this sort of disagreement used to be "Change providers", "Work elsewhere", "Spin up your own version" and "Buy a different brand". The standard liberal answer was always "Write your congressman" "Sponsor legislation", and "There aught to be a law"

It's like we're living in upside-down-backwards world. The conservative administration in power is buying stakes in private business, and clearly attempting to control commerce from the top down with tariffs, regulation, lawsuits and threats. They're insisting big government do something about every little thing they don't like, and choosing winners and losers based on political ideology, while the left is now crying for less government, fewer laws, and generally less executive power.

It really is a crazy time to be alive. It's gotta be confusing as hell for young people who're just beginning to pay attention to politics what with the fun new GOP armed troop janitorial units in DC and ICE jumpout black bag squads in blue cities and whatnot.. Especially considering the complete 180 so many of those in public office have performed on so many issues over the past year and half or so. I've been paying attention for a while and it's still damn hard to keep it all straight.

Private companies are still able to conduct business the way they want.. right? We as consumers are still allowed to choose what and what not to use/consume, right? The government is still the referee between the consumer and big business right? We're still against monopolies, right?

It's lead in what exactly? Unemployment? AI Slop generation? Homeless people?

If these tech companies get what they want we'll all be wage slave prisoners shuffling around in the dirt of their techno-utopia city-states while they invent creative new ways to entertain the idle rich and casually live out their lives in extreme wealth and opulence on the backs of the rest of us.

Fuck em..

I've already got a literPC under the TV running Debian for other projects. This fits right in there. Another project for the pile.

We are very much still there my friend. Just because you don't want to doesn't mean the rest of us cannot.

Or you could NOT cut up the priceless historic artifact for no real real practical reason. Seriously? Am I stuck in a fking cartoon?

(Because TX really really wants it is not an actual reason)

How much we gonna bet that this is actually happening precisely because of those millions. It's either a payout for services rendered, or somehow designed to destroy somebody who refused the render said services... or maybe it's just another petty slight between our lofty lawmakers.

It's almost like when you go mask off and start rounding people up with your secret police and fill the leadership positions with useless angry goons people might stop buying bullshit and might even start getting serious about where they put their money.

Who could have seen this coming?

This is bullshit. This is like proclaiming that all the houses are going to fall down because we invented a nail-gun.

LLMs allow me to hammer out a design framework and project flow in minutes. I'm still doing my own creating, my own art, and my own writing, I just don't have to fuck around doing a lot of the boring shit I don't enjoy doing. I can bounce ideas off of it without worrying about somebody stealing my ideas, and it sometimes pushes me in directions I hadn't considered before. Doing outlines and story framework is boring, and sometimes it's hard to even start a project knowing that shit is involved.

People using LLMs to generate creative works or content are fully in two categories. Those who would be doing what they're doing without the LLMS help, and those who would not, and the difference is obvious when you look at the finished product.

There's already a clear divide between AI slop and real content online, but I don't think it's going to lead to a content crash like the videogame crash of the 80s.

Amazon is already full of low effort obviously generated garbage, and the internet as a whole is already bursting with endless low effort bullshit pushed by untalented ghouls looking for a quick buck and clueless edgy teenagers not realizing their internet antics could follow them for years.

People are seeing the garbage that low effort fools are producing with LLMs and assuming that's all it can do because you cant even tell it was involved if it's used properly.

The real problem I see coming down the pipe is the dependency people are developing. There WILL come a time for profit, and when that time comes, we're going to have an entire generation of people who've already outsourced their cognitive abilities to their chosen LLM and simply wont be able to function with it.

I see the natural evolution of this tech a lot like the personal computer. Eventually, it's gonna be just another appliance in every home.

Today, nobody knows how to open a can of beans without a can opener, and I'm afraid we wont be able to learn without our learning machines.

Watching these clowns jiggle keys in the publics face and the public just all-the-way goes for it.

We truly are a nation of dipshits.

What's the new name gonna be? Colossus? HAL? Mother?

It's funny, you can tell what books the billionaire class are reading by the schemes they dump their money into and what they choose to call them. Zuck must finally be over his Snow Crash kick.

I'm honestly surprised it took Zucko this long to pivot. There's still too many actual tech people left in the world to convince the masses to "buy" invented Cyberspace real estate from a digital land baron.

The meta scam will work eventually. Maybe in 20 years, when the lions share of us graybeards are pissing ourselves and drooling.

Why is this even a discussion? They simply can't be trusted.

Marketing will turn it around because normal people are not tracking Intels string of colossal fuckups.

Normal people buy laptops and game systems every 5 years or so. MS is forcing the turn this time, and people will buy what they know.

Never give up your likeness right kids. Once they've got it, they'll use it forever.

Anybody who wants to download Ns IP has already got it.

When business intentionally cripples it's own service there are two avenues for redress. Regulation, and market pressure.

It's not like anybody is forced to buy HP products. Seems like market pressures are the fix here.