Which is probably entirely the point.

smirk I know what you did there.

Yes those are called scalies. You're welcome.

Yes, and half the time they hand you back a dime and three nickels after some head scratching.

I can't help but notice that those who always yell the loudest about "muh right to free speech!" Are more often than not just trying to justify some shitty behavior for which they feel they should receive no consequences.

If it can be seen it can be copied, yes, but there's a world of difference between someone scraping a service, and that service using your raw data via the back end along with all the additional metadata and account data that's associated with it.

FWIW, there's been a mass exodus of artists and creative types from X/Twitter over to Bsky lately, along with their followers, causing their numbers to grow quickly from the 6 digits over a million and now into the tens of millions in just a few short months, and I don't think they're far enough down the path of enshitification to betray the trust of that userbase just yet. I'm not saying it won't happen, but this early in the game it will quickly kill that momentum if it's discovered that they have.

Or if you drive with the windows down, or with the music up, or if kids are asleep in the backseat...

A better comparison would be... replace "AI" with "NFT". Or replace "AI" with "virtual reality". Or replace "AI" with "curved monitor". I could go on...

There's a reason Temu crap is cheaper. No thanks, I don't want a charger/cable that's going to risk damaging my devices or cause a fire.

"AI" will be a thing of the past by then, just like every other passing fad... such as blockchains, the metaverse, NFT's, and other corporate trends in tech.

Thank you for explaining that, I was just about to type out the exact same thing. I think a big reason that the community settled on Telegram is that most of us want to keep that aspect of our lives separate from our other social media streams, which are frequented by family and coworkers and other professional contacts.

I'm both a college professor and a high school teacher. That's not quite right. At the college level, there are instructors who pride themselves on grading harshly and almost never give out A's. Of course, there are also those who are extremely generous with grades and essentially grade on completion without holding students to the rubric. Guess who catches the most criticism from colleges? Hint: the toughest graders are often older, established, tenured professors and the lenient ones are typically newer instructors trying to be the popular teacher with the students.

It's typically in secondary school where the pressure is to be lenient with grades. not only for things like graduation rate, but that's where you get pressure from outside the school from parents as in "can my little Johnny redo the questions he missed on the assignment and you give him a 100?"

to be fair, real AI doesn't exist, which is why I put it in quotes. My point is that it's all just a fancy predictive text, just with a really huge dataset. Of course these days, every company has to sound like they're on the AI bandwagon, so they train a "chatbot" with a very small database of customer service tree options and the final product sucks. That's why the typical experience is "I can't help you with that, here are some things you can ask me about... I can't help you with that, here are some things you can ask me about... okay, here's how to reach out to a real human."

Perhaps, only if your goal from "customer service" is to get information. If you have to call support to have someone take some action on the back end that you can't fix as a user, you absolutely don't want a machine learning interface to be able to do that.

That's basically what "AI" currently is anyway, it's just a really huge tree...