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How much of a burden could this really be?

You know how Google deprecating stuff externally is a (deserved) meme? Things get deprecated internally even more frequently and someone has to migrate to the new thing. It's a huge pain in the ass to keep up with for teams that are fully funded. If something doesn't have a team dedicated to it eventually someone will decide it's no longer worth that burden and shut it down instead.

So, you want to keep the status quo where the people who are correctly compensated for their role are the ones willing to front-run their own citizens? (And also spending their time front-running instead of their elected job?

No, those are actually entirely different words than what I have said.

Study mode 12 months ago

This is an incredibly pedantic argument. The common interfaces for LLMs set their temperature value to non-zero, so they are effectively non-deterministic.

Oh please, the billionaires who control these things aren't going to share the wealth with the people they put out of work. They're going to suck as many of us dry as they possibly can

"As long as the bills are paid" is the key point. They won't be because people will be out of a job with no safety net

Eventually the economics will correct themselves once people yet again learn the old "you get what you pay for" lesson (or the more modern FAFO lesson)

The number of things it can actually do is significantly lower than the number of things the hype men are claiming it can do.

I would counter with:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

This is a story about politics, not related to tech in any way, and is not some new phenomenon