This isn't AI damaging anything. This is corporations damaging things. Same as it ever was. No need for scifi non-human persons when legal corporate persons exist. They latch on to whatever big new thing in tech that people don't understand which comes along and brand themselves with it and cause damage trying to make money; even if they mostly fail at it. And for most actual humans they only ever see or interact with the scammy corporation versions of $techthing and so come to believe $techthing = corporate behavior.

And as for denying service and preventing human people from visiting websites: cloudflare does more of that damage in a single day than all these "AI" associated corporations and their crappy crawlers have in years.

I guess for a lot of users like myself using Notion ship has sailed. Most of them have moved to Obsidian, with the new database feature of Obsidian, and it being free, I do not see why users would choose Notion over Obsidian.

I highly recommend Siyuan as an alternative, it has many the best features from obsidian plugins included by default

Right-o, so you were not really interested except to argue and misquote me.

You can actually figure the explanations out yourself. Hint 1: employees misbehave. Hint 2: accidents get green lighted for special investigative access.

Only if we let it be fact. Surely there’s a line.

> Dependence on foreign power with potentially misaligned goal? Collapse of manufacturing sector, leading to rise in poverty?

Note that this has been the reality of countries in the Third World who aligned themselves with the US, a foreign power whose interests were misaligned with theirs.

The US is now having a taste of their own medicine.

That software reality you describe is not too far off. Not with LLMs alone, but definitely seen the software copy machines accelerate. Any novel idea launched on an app store that sees any traction or attention will be flooded with close imitations in weeks.

To be fair there is a lot of talk about "bringing manufacturing back". IMO what the government is doing in that regard is more than misguided but other efforts exist. I'm optimistic about efforts like https://californiaforever.com/solano-foundry/. Permitting reform is a key piece which they work around, synergy from physical proximity is another. Both are addressed by the Solano Foundry project. One might see US labor cost as a disadvantage but with automation I don't think it matters that much. Jobs have been mostly lost to automation, rather than to China and that so only continue.