Similar to third party car insurance in many countries that is obligatory

Excel is very similar. Loooots of business processes run in Excel Spreadsheets

I just sent a bill to my client doing exactly that.
They have a junior dev who used to a hardware gal and then configured networks and somehow became a code. Boss spent lots on money to build an app that the AI basically copy-pasted all over the place. She could not cope (but then she is scared of git and refuses to write tests since they are boring) I was brought in to fix the mess

Ka-Ching!!!

Just wait until you wife asks "Does this pant make by butt look fat?" and see what happens if you are honest.

BTW, My standard answer is "I am not Karl Lagerfeld and you have two daughters that have a fashion sense, go ask them"

My wife works in Switzerland and if I pass through her social circle I get kissed on the cheeks all the time. Can't say I dislike it! But, I have to add, that would be the French speaking part. In the German part not so much.

Feed A.I. with hot garbage and you get hot garbage instead of verified vetted factual information. This is why an Enclyclopedia is more accurate than Wikipedia, etc. Human information needs to be processed by humans and validated as correct. Science is all about proving everything. Well not so online with news or social media. Nope that can be completely incorrect and is frequently so.

AI is not intelligent. It's a mimic regurgitating what it saw online. AI is useful for many things but it's not "there yet". It might not get "there yet" until quantum becomes far more advanced than it is now. The hype train is fueling A.I. due to the immense promise and potential for AI in the future.

Lots of stories of companies deploying AI and much like Tesla Autodrive they trust it and end up seriously injured or worse. AI still cannot be trusted.An amateur cannot wield AI without knowing the suject matter at hand. Otherwise, AI will start halucinating and feeding you lies and made up B.S.

Artificial Intelligence is merely a B.S. generator at this point... Sure it can seem really smart at times but completely clueless at other times. It also tends to wish to please you and therefore will lie to you.

He is blue, right?

Definitely not! That town in 30km from where I live!

"doesn't affect me personally so fuck it".

Spot on. Gardening Copywriter does not mean what it says directly. It means the person is a copywriter. Just happened to work for a gardening magazine. A information source written by people. If AI takes over all the text we are going to live on regurgitated stuff from now on. Like eating your own shit because it it is recycled.

As for "I am not too sad"? The guy is just a goddamn psychopath without feelings for other people.

And while you were typing it in you are already thinking about to add and modify stuff to make even more fun! Those were the days.

And Nibble Magazine

And has been since the 90s. And so has eMacs. Microsoft writes en editor? In 2025?! This is 50 years late!

This is all done so the government can spy on their civilians. That's what it is all about. The CCP having control and surveillance of citizens using these computers. The state is already a surveillance state and they disappear people and entire families all the time. When missionaries have to lie to enter the country and get picked up at the airport, change vehicles and clothing 5 times. Enter an apartment block where someone has tampered with the cameras and the lights. Enter a nondescript apartment to find 50 people sitting on the floor eagerly awaiting the evangelist preacher from the West. When dissidents have their organs harvested or they are turned into those plasticized human bodies on tour exhibits. Lucky if you only end up in a labor camp. One only needs to look at what they did to the Uyghurs. Many were just executed, the rest were placed into Chinese homes and forced into slavery while they were 'reprogrammed' to accept the Communist beliefs. They have a real Dark Mirror dystopian social score. You can't buy / sell / conduct business / travel without a good enough social score.

DO NOT TRUST CHINA, they are ASSHOLES...

You worry about the taxes. The rest of us worry about the transport costs