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In other words: this legislation is useless, and entirely stupid, and kids will bypass it trivially. Teenagers are exceptionally good at bypassing that which they find stupid, or gets in their way of what they consider to be fun, or a right.
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for...
My friend, that was NZ prime minister Robert Muldoon who was quoted as saying “every time a New Zealander emigrates to sun themselves on the beaches of Bondi, the average IQ of both countries increases.”
Anyway, after arguing with them from for months, they acknowledge it as a bug. I wait for it to be fixed, months roll away. Then they tell me it has been lodged as an “enhancement request”.
Don’t deal with FreshService. Needless to say, we are soon to be leaving them.
They have no obligation to do otherwise. - ~~~~
If this is how I feel about a discredited and largely uninfluential website, one can only imagine how Matthew feels given how widely read the unhinged claims on tuxmachines were against him.
Foisting AI on people in the way they have means we lose a bit more control, for a feature we don't want. There is a certain level of AI burnout in the market - not every product needs AI. In fact, if a vendor says they have "AI" in their product, I immediately ignore that aspect and ask even more questions about their actual capabilities. Often they are hiding things behind an AI smokescreen.