Put at risk, or willfully given to their masters? All the ghouls suckling Yarvin's teats like Thiel want their tech driven tyranny, and SS data will help them on their way.

100% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

The US is trying CCP-style state-capitalism? Also, the glorious leader and great GOP chairman Trump gave his owners a great opportunity for insider trade. Last time be publicly bragged about it, too.

It's not just the UK, but the whole of Europe. With the rise of literal neo-nazi parties like reform uk, the german afd, the french front national, and whatnot out there, widespread surveillance legislation will be turned against freedom and democratic opposition by the emerging far right extremists when given power. A tech-fueled fascist surveillance state, who thinks that's a good idea?

In my hobby we have "grognards" - the grumpy old farts that detest everything new and pick on every little change. That opinion piece was written by a full on grognard who cries with bullshit arguments about the collapse of civilization because "corpo changed product" from inarticulate icons to inarticulate icons.

The AI hype is probably collapsing soon. But that won't solve the issue. It's basically the only thing that drives the ponzi scheme, sorry, the "stock market growth". It'll end in tears for working people again.

"Last week I’m in a café, rewatching the same JavaScript tutorial for the 23rd time. Next to me? A 16-year-old casually building a Discord bot that streams live sports data."

You don't learn software development by just looking at tutorials, you learn software development by solving something real, something you want to accomplish. The 16yo probably isn't as great a coder, but they wanted something, a discord bot, and they just built it. Tutorials are a dull chore. Solving real problems will teach you the stuff you actually need and give a feeling of success like no tutorial or made up training project ever can, no matter how well it is presented. Also, if you're 9 years into coding as a hobby and cannot whip up a to-do-app almost instantly you really should rethink how you spend your time and effort. Woodworking is also fun.

Unsurprising. Your virtual girlfriends are just linear algebra and the ELIZA effect.

'Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training.' - yeah thanks Captain Obvious.

"As a search company, we care passionately — perhaps more than any other company — about the health of the web ecosystem." Yeah, right, complete and utter bullshit. This really reads like the crisis PR of a parasitical ad tech business.