Everything you said is bullshit. Windows deserves all the flak for all the right reasons. This is simply not one of them.

Apologies, I should have mentioned that the situation I mentioned was about in-house employees.

As someone who worked for years in support (a long time ago), it's a classic case of "intersection of sets".
On one hand, you have the set of people who actually know the products. On the other, you have the set of people willing to work in support, manning phones.
The first set is more or less inelastic. The second set can be increased somewhat by offering high salaries, but that's limited because if you increase them enough, you would reduce other sets (e.g. people who know the product but work in other areas related to the product). For example, if the helpdesk agent salary reaches or exceeds the backend support salary (that is, the engineer who is on-call), the latter would move to the former, and then you'd have a lack of engineers who know how to fix the product when it goes kaboom for some reason.

Which means it's all a complicated dance.

I worked in direct support (taking phones) back in early 2000s, and did it for a limited time, because it was an entry job and the good ones (with enough willingness and brains to move up, which wasn't a high bar) were quickly snatched to fill other positions. I remained linked to support departments, but I was no longer taking direct calls. At any rate, the struggle to hire even remotely competent agents was real. Scraping the bottom of the barrel was continuous, and the attrition was enormous, sometimes exceeding 200% per year.

There's the answer to your question.

What, did you think Citizens United would only allow conservative organizations to conceal their funding sources?

I maintain that boast remains objectively true (yes, in spite of Biden's decline) every time your guy opens his fool, lying mouth.

and humans eat as many as 100 spiders per day!

it's easy to get impressive numbers when you prefix it with "as much as". That's just the upper limit. Often not even anywhere near the average

Clickbait.

It speaks volumes about who MAGA looks up to as their thought leaders, and it's perfectly on-brand that those people are as easy marks as their followers.

Let's start with Russia.

ChatGPT making up things and incorrectly following policy would merely be in line with the current editorial pool, who ignores policy when it suits them and fabricates material if an article has any kind of political content.

Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

This isn't a technology problem, it's a law problem. The law is supposed to stop authorities from searching things outside of the scope of a warrant. The law is also supposed to impose penalties when authorities fail to operate within their legal bounds.

In short, "stopping them" is the entire point of the 4th Amendment.

Yet.

I miss the page-widening posts.

Right.
Some people love rubbing elbows with others, some don't. Let those who do go do it, and let those who don't skip it.

It is just that simple.

People that consider themselves vital, but then have to take steps to create artificial vitality - their own actions are proving them wrong.

If you were truly vital, your simple absence would be a disaster all by itself. If you have to engineer that condition, you're NOT vital. This is just an arrogant, self-important narcissist behaving badly and getting what they've got coming, at the cost of others.

I don't think there are enough stories like this in the news. It's pretty easy to find accounts BY such individuals that created kill switches and caused chaos when they were dismissed. It's good to see one of them get hat they deserve. Jokers like this give the rest of us a bad name.