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To some extend I hope that the Republican party wins the next election. They should be the ones fixing the economy, raising taxes, and doing something responsible for once.

If Democrats win they are going to be blamed for being the "bad guys" for increasing taxes, controlling inflation and trying to get the economy back to shape.

For Republicans to burn down the economy during their mandates has paid of as the next government needs to focus on firefighting instead of doing the good that it could have been done.

> but you stick out like a sore thumb to people

Good point. When I pass by the security at the airport they force me to take off my hat. Something covering my face would not be taken lightly.

> and by having a second one (with a different context) check almost entirely eliminates the problem.

You solved one of the largest problems with current LLMs. How is it possible that nobody tried that before?

Because they do. There are already LLMs checking outputs of other LLMs, the bullshit answers that you see are the results of failures on that checks. If you remove all checks LLMs will create hallucinations even more often.

> the responsibility is sufficiently diluted that it's impossible to charge anyone in particular.

Was not that the goal when companies started using AI for their customer support? Be able to say anything without legal repercussions...

But then this happened: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...

And support chatbot got a reality cold shower.

The law will find a way to charge people in particular. Sadly will start with the less powerful in the chain before it actually acts on the people that can actually change things.

When everybody is giving their product for free to compete with a paid product is almost impossible.

But I agree that it should not be like that and that governments around the world should regulate all these "free" services.

> Data wasn't the killer.

"Past performance does not guarantee future results" and yet people treats data as a crystal ball that can predict the future.

Data can help a company to decide what to do next week with little though and great results.

It cannot set a long-term strategy without a lot of interpretation, guessing and adaptability. That same very good short-term decision may have been the first step towards destruction.

> How does an industry degenerate to the point where they consider acceptable to base their business model on owning part of the product they sell you?

Neoliberalism. The only thing that keeps companies in good behaviour are strong regulations and harsh penalties (prison time) for perpetrators. Remove that and corporations will become feudal systems to pay tribute to.

Any type of data gathering should be forbidden. The "with consent" is bullshit, as the only way to not give consent is to leave society and live in a cave. (No driving a car, no taking a flight, no reading a website, no subscribing to any service, not playing games, etc.) When there is no real choice there is no consent either.

Corporations have profiles on citizens that makes the Gestapo or the KGB seem uninformed in comparison. There is no freedom when the people in power know everything about you.

Google is part of a cartel of ad companies. Most websites do not have any option left. To blame small companies for choosing big tech monopolies is unfair and solves nothing.

Strong regulations and splitting monopolies are the real solutions here.

And if Google breaks the law someone from the company needs to go to prison, too. Knowingly helping criminals is a crime itself.

> time the gasoline price shock right to the midterm elections.

Donald Trump can end this at any time if he wants. It would have been better to not have started it, thou. Less killing of innocent people, less spending on weapons, better mental health for USA soldiers...

And why is China suddenly at fault for America's actions?

For me the reason is economic.

Shame is only effective in a society of equals.

If one day you may become my boss better treat you well. If one day anyone may become my neighbor better treat anonymous people well. If my kid may end married with yours then I better treat you well.

For billionaires shame makes no sense. They will never have to confront the people that they abuse. Inequality makes consequences go away. The powerful have not shame because they feel entitled to not need it.

Even average people knows that they only need to care about the powerful. It is better to wrong your neighbor than the powerful politician that will retaliate against you.

Eliminate inequality and people will care again.

What technical implementation will be used to verify the user age?

- Taking pictures of children seems something that will go horribly bad - Government verification is not implemented, even in countries were it is possible to verify your identity on-line (to pay taxes or so) it still lacks safe and anonymous way to verify age. - Sending IDs like passports and so will be a source of hacking and identity theft.

I am all for having a government sanction service that allows me to send them a session key and they sign it as I am an adult. The government does not need to know from where the key comes from and the service does not need to know my ID. Just age verification.

> Large corporations getting special exceptions from it didn't start with LLMs.

The root problem is inequality. Copyright makes sense to allow authors to profit from their work. But it was warped to give more power to big corporations that own now works for more than a century. Everybody that was alive when some works were produced will be dead by the time that they are free.

LLMs shows what happens when you remove copyright. Websites are starving for visitors as LLMs copy/paste their contents and charge for it without giving anything back.

Split monopolies, improve working class conditions, and get politicians that work for - the now powerful - working class. Copyright can be fixed, but not until power is removed from the few and given back to the many.

> The problem is not vibe coding.

Except that it is the enabler. Without AI there are no 5K lines of code that no human has ever seen. AI introduces a new category of problem that did not exist before.

> how can that same right be denied to a group who have decided to speak together?

Corporations are not people nor behave like individuals. Money is not speech.

> “speech” in this context has always been interpreted to mean any act by which a message is conveyed to other people

Like a bullet? That explains the high murder rate in the USA. Your argument makes no sense and only works if one does not think too much about it.

> has always been interpreted

Saying that it has always been like that does not make it so. Because it was not.

It has always been agreed by everybody that corporations do not have a right to free speech only individual citizens have it.

> Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses

Taxation can and must solve it before "society collapses". And many people are working to solve the problem. It is difficult and requires effort but nothing that has not been done before. We got rid of king (by the will of god) in the past so techno-power-hungry cringey businessmen should be easier.

This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly.

Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough power to subjugate the will of the people. Monopolies, billionaires, the accumulation of such power is making the average citizen powerless. And you can feel it.

> it has to actually do something wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/...

It is not reputation, it is committing actual crimes...

> Amazon...

The company that looks like a medieval food shop with meat warming in the sun and a big sign that says "caveat emptor" and manned by a slave with very dirty hands. The fact that it still operates in the EU is prove that more tough punishments are needed for corporations that push fraud, dangerous products, abuse of monopolistic position, etc. Amazon in a nutshell.

As a not American, why does freedom of speech include corporations giving money that are not citizens nor talking. But even that Congress has the power to spend "to provide for the common defence and general welfare" given by the constitution it still not a right to receive any of that.

I have a feeling that there is a interpretation bias in favor of corporations over human life.

> Intent requires at least that you were deliberately doing the criminal act

So, they did something that benefits them by mistake. I would like to see a person would be judged in that situation. I can imagine that the bar to put someone in prison is way lower than to give a fine to a mega-corporation.

> That all relies on American platforms.

Totally true. The EU needs its own platforms, I hope that better regulated than their USA counterparts. Linux started in Europe, it should have been promoted more for internal usage. But privatization of state-owned companies made it ideologically impossible to push for it. Public good was seen as "bad" and "against business", I hope that the obvious failure of that policy makes it now a possibility to use Linux.

> two years, we will be all writing and talking like this

I have seen kids talking like youtubers: the top 10 things I like, or what I need to do before I die (the kids is 9 years old), ... not great (like repeating ad tunes or slogans) but not as bad as AI bullshit-talk.

My only hope is that AI bullshit-talk is so boring and predictable that it has low impact in our speech. And looking at what other commenters say boring and insufferable seems to be the case.

> Yeah, but do you control international banking the way they do?

This is why Europe needs to detach itself from the American banking system.

It used to be very practical to use it. Countries renounced to some sovereignty in exchange for ease of doing business. The USA had an advantage but it didn't abuse it too much.

The current situation is that the USA is asking to forfeit sovereignty and to control business in an ideological basis. There is a strong incentive to leave that system as the alternative is become a colony of the USA. And the push for colonization is not subtle as the president takes over other countries resources like Venezuela's oil or tries to take control of the straight of Hormuz (None part of the USA at this moment)

> Intention matter a lot in US law.

They hacked a competition company. The intention was implicit when there is economic gain to be had.

> People are not charged with hacking when their unsecured box is taken over by a botnet and does bad stuff.

Because it is a lose for that people. If the botnet left money in their pockets the situation would be totally different as there will be an incentive for them to let the botnet hack them.

> Even when humans have a friendship—or something that feels like it—with a crow, the relationship happens on the wild animal’s terms. They visit when they want to, and they may disappear from our life suddenly.

It goes also the other way around. I do not leave a note to my neighborhood crows when I move town.

I think that it has nothing to do in which terms it happens but the communication barrier. It is very possible that the crows signal that they are leaving for good but we are just missing the message. And my reason to not leave them a note is because they cant read, if they could I would.

> "oh, you're drowning?? but you're IN WATER.."?

I laughed so hard at that. Best argument is good argument but funny.

AI coding is for my lazy days. If I do not want to do a task I will use AI. I tell it what to do and I wait. I have to put less mental effort into it even if takes a few re-tries and several times the amount of time.

Is it addictive? Yes. Like any other gambling activity. Will it succeed? Will it fail? Will generate garbage or give me the Jackpot? It is addictive. A reliable tool that always did the job will be... boring.

If there is an interesting task that I am focus in then I will do it myself. I can still use AI but just as an archived version of Stack Overflow where to get how some little-used feature of the language works. The dynamic completely changes. To ask questions about very simple well documented information is useful but boring. Ask question -> get answer. Not exciting at all, not addictive, but I find that to have all the internet compressed in a query machine (that can also get information from the Internet) is the actual useful part of AI. (And total copyright infringement)

> no consequences

Usually if you are extremely poor or extremely rich there are no consequences for you. The extremely poor are desperate and have nothing to lose, society already took everything from them. The extremely rich are above the law. As inequality increases crime increases with it, from vandalism to financial crimes.

This is why equality is so important. When the average Joe has a good job, good salary, and a home then can lose things that society has helped him to get and can take away.