AI features are also Microsoft’s excuse for trying to force customers into a $100/yr subscription model.

The level of trust that implies, though!

Meta is an evil company. How many ways do they have to show that before people catch on?

Governments around the world fund cancer research. Cancer charities are among the best funded. There’s a lot of money going into curing cancers.

If you put LLMs in everything, eventually when something good happens, then someone can pretend it was because of the LLM!

Cancer doesn’t get cured by ideas alone, the most demanding part of the job is actually testing the treatments, which takes a huge amount of money, time, and effort. No technology will change the fact that you need to wait 10 years to see if a treatment can prevent the cancer from coming back for 10 years.

What if you could have personalized ads fed directly into your visual field at all times?

You know that’s where this is going.

This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.

Today’s kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country’s economy. Capitalism is going great.