"Chinese State Media" vs. "Supreme Chinese leader Xing"

A distinction without a difference.

Mulled cyber.

Yes. And chemtrails, natch. It's an insidious ingredient.

And this is a good example of why we need guard rails on these things. Some people say, "well my request is innocuous enough, why won't the AI give me the answer?"

But look at the damage that can be done by manipulating and segmenting requests.

Take an innocuous substance such as your sodium chloride, put it in chemical solution with dihydrogen monoxide, and suddenly you have something that can make radical changes to organic molecules.

You can try it yourself in your home kitchen (under adult supervision and with appropriate safety equipment):
- Carefully create your solution.
- Add a random organic from the fridge such as a cucumber or other vegetable.
- Observe the transformation.
- Digest your conclusions.

"I see you're trying to explore a solar system! Can I help?"

To be called "Shit Howdy" in the South.

"Privacy died in the 1970s when stores started to track customer purchases."

I was going to say, "Privacy died in the '50s with Jedgar's wiretaps", then decided to look it up.

Apparently the first wiretapping was in the 1890s, shortly after voice comms were invented. The legality was strengthened by the Supremes in the 1920s (Prohibition, 'natch). WWII, wartime rules. We get to Jedgar in the '50s due to Commies behind every bush. In the '60s RFK Sr. signed the order 'tapping MLK (The Supremes finally required court orders in '68).

That brings us to the '70s and your comment, where other technologies started coming on line that make it easier than ever to intrude on privacy.

"Or said differently, there isn't a lot of human professionals that require AI verification..."

Well put.

OTOH, as the LLM's absorb the worldviews of their various owners, I expect that will end when they start vetting people with various AI's for various reasons.

It does sound like fun. Hope it doesn't devolve into tentacle pr0n. Knowing humans, it'll be B&D sessions instead.

at least the front didn't fall off.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your multi-national corporation!

Well, they got the "boom" part right.

Interesting. Clicking a few additional countries, I note that Canada and Australia pretty much track the US for the past decade or so. Next tier are Russia and SK, then China (growing), and below that Europe. India is way down there. Also growing, but will take a century or more to catch up (using a linear extrapolation). "Fun" chart to play with, like many at that site.

I applaud others stepping forward to fill the vacuum from a general US contraction in Earth sciences. I imagine that eventually they and others who do this can sell data to US insurance companies, urban planners, the military, and others whose job it is to do long-range planning.