"Alexa, pls stop spying on me. Ok? Thx."

It's baffling how companies like Meta, Alphabet, etc. pull shit like this over and over again, or do even worse, and most people still keep using their products as if they were masochists.

It's everybody's responsibility to get fucking literate in the use of media. Examples like these are harmless and just point out how easy it is for malicious actors, be it states, political partys, or other groups and individuals, to spread misinformation.
The use of AI tools such as LLMs makes this even more important.

Only "almost" so it's still fine. /j

There was missing something...

"just"

I suppose this will become an arms race, just like with ad-blockers and ad-blocker detection/circumvention measures.
There will be solutions for scraper-blockers/traps. Then those become more sophisticated. Then the scrapers become better again and so on.

I don't really see an end to this madness. Such a huge waste of resources.

GPU rendered text interfaces are pretty ubiquitous already. You can find that in IDEs, browsers, apps and GUIs of OSs. Drawing pixels is still a job the GPU excels at. No matter whether it's just text. So I don't see a point why we shouldn't apply that to terminal emulators as well.

Probably has to be renamed to "ClosedAI" then.

Today on the internet: Fun with spherical geometry.

*global IT outage shows dangers of monopolies.

Must be an USA thing again: got problems with your speech but can't afford logopedic treatment? Get an escort instead!