The real question is, who are the other 55%?
That whole humanity thing was a bad idea, the internet is merely a symptom.
Or does AI prey on lonely people much like other types of scams do?
Convincing a lot of people you are correct is a form of power.
If it’s voluntary, they’ll only do it if it benefits them.
Often not even then. They'll only do it if it is trivial to determine that it undeniably benefits the decision-makers personally.
Unlimited Stupids of America?
I am still in favor of the traditional way of age verification. Do you have a parent who keeps you from using our site? No? Then we consider you an adult.
I sort of assumed that was their business model from the start, wasn't it?
It might also be necessary to find new ways of discussion that do not favor short, emotionally impactful but factually wrong arguments so much. Our political discussions tend to have a lot of repetition all over the place anyway that is a waste of our collective time.
Yes, most likely they use it for implementation inheritance which is sloppy anyway since it usually violates the Liskov substitution principle and also most OOP languages that have that concept tend to have issues around co- and contra-variance in either function parameter and return types or containers or both.
It hasn't been safe to travel with a phone or laptop since at least the post 9/11 changes to travel rules, at least not into or out of the US and other oppressive regimes that spy on your phone on the border.
Well, I was more using the term in terms of the industry than the actual software. The thought of AI of the kind we currently have having intentions of its own didn't even occur to me.