France is indeed ridiculously bad at ventilation (not to mention air conditioning). Restaurants, offices, even gyms - most have bad to non-existing ventilation. Coming from the States this is just insanity.
A periodic reminder that companies are paperclip optimizers that will stop at nothing to protect their profits and existence.
If you are developing anything in AI or related domains that is of immediate value and/or in competition with Anthropic (and the like), DO NOT use a CLI programming agent. Preferrably obfuscate your code and gut it of sensitive IP before showing it to agents. Do not trust the dont-train toggle.
+1 for office work as disease source.
Plus taking public transport (mostly underground trains). Today I avoid the subway almost completely, taking my bike almost everywhere, to avoid getting sick during winter.
(No kids though)
My guess is that an AI layer already present _is_ the reason you're seeing these unhinged suggestions.
Earlier generation iOS keyboards were much more accurate and reasonable.
Makes me think of that part in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream (..) -- where Deckard reflects on the androids' indifference to their imminent deaths, saying that this was due to them lacking the aversion to death acquired trough evolution.
100%.
Companies are paperclip optimizers, with money as the objective.
For example, Uber used ride data to circumvent investigations by regulators.
There is absolutely no reason to assume that AI companies would not use their data in any way possible to reach their objectives.
ChatGPT is the only bot that reliably cites sources (through Web search mode).
The other bots either make up links or simply don't provide any information that is distinguishable from the LLM predictive output.
Ironically Gemini is also very bad at this, while it should have been the best at Web search.
Gemini also does something very patchy, which is to provide "links" which are in fact GET queries into classic Google search. I'm guessing they did it this way because the links generated/hallucinated by the LLM were too unreliable.