Cuz that's what they are.

The real news here is that the people who run WaPo were genuinely taken by surprise that a technology prone to making things up is making things up. What a perfect example of AI misuse.

You act as if there's something we can do about it. The vast majority of the public *hate* all the AI garbage being packed into every piece of software and have been very vocal about it. The response of the ultra-wealthy is, "We know and we don't care because this is GOING to happen because we said so." Most people are more aware than you give them credit for, but we have a limited amount of energy we can put toward all the things happening in the world right now and we understand this is one of those things that isn't worth the expended energy.

How does paying for a streaming service make people suckers? Do you even have a clue what YouTube TV is?

It is fascinating, but the far right's infatuation with the orange one does not equate to 40% of the U.S. population believing he's God incarnate. That's what rsilvergun does. He makes up nonsense based off extreme exaggerations and confidently repeats it over and over again in the comments of every story. Just like a bad LLM would do.

I would argue that a poorly designed LLM is roughly on par with rsilvergun's posts. Usually a little better than rsilvergun's posts.

I hope someone does a medical study on you someday, so that we might all understand the inner workings of the brain of a person who's become so hopelessly delusional to actually believe things like this.

You seem to be ignoring the social implications of said secret configuration. Do you have a wife? ;)

A few years back my wife wanted to turn our house into spyware by putting this throughout the house. I strongly objected, so later that year, "Santa" brought our family of bunch of these devices.

It only takes one family member...

- Ads on Prime Video
- Next day deliveries that usually don't show up the next day
- Increasingly difficult to find anything on Amazon (Prime or not) besides knock-off junk

It's really not that difficult to figure out why.

But since you outsourced this work, I can't say I feel bad for you.

...before targeted ads are smashed into the middle of all AI responses. Corporate greed almost guarantees it.

Same. Subscriptions to use seat warmers and the like is ludicrous and outrageous. But, just like Amazon playing ads in Prime Video, they know we're entirely powerless to stop it. Welcome to the era where companies view the purchasers of their products as the enemy.

Google doing what Google does best...at least this time they're up front about it only being free for a year.

and users will be forced onto the "new" Outlook, which is so bad it shouldn't even be considered software in any real sense of the word. In the end, the consumer loses and M$ wins...just like they like it.