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You can't seriously believe this.

Seems to me like you're undervaluing the impact of software in the modern world, as if software hasn't driven massive productivity gains in every industry in the last 50 years.

> The early 2026 research shows only modest improvement in productivity

The field experiments in this study are a few years old.

This feels like a parlor trick where the AI was trained to mimic informal telephone mannerisms. The actual conversations were pretty bad. Lots of style, not much substance basically.

You can do both, that's what Apple was famous for in the past.

If someone generates an image with a signature on it and doesn't share it, what harm does that do?

When the user shares it, that is when reputational harm becomes an issue.

I think beer is even more of an acquired taste, but it doesn't stop the breweries from outselling the wineries.

So you think the engineers should be prosecuted for hacking Hugging Face? I'm not sure how else to take what you said if you want to assign all culpability to the person who prompts or develops an AI system.

If it ain't broke, fix it.

It doesn't have to be a race, that's just the way we have been treating it so far. There have been examples in the past of civilization ending technology that has been redirected from being a death race (chemical, biological, and nuclear arms in particular.)

JSTOR isn't just full of publicly funded work.

Needs an annoying header that changes size as you scroll.

How does banning the models in the US prevent this?

Knowing that they trained on that data doesn't mean that you've demonstrated that they "stole" it. Certainly the courts haven't decided that in every case.

>It seems like the purpose of humans isn't to keep machines busy. When our phone or laptop is idle, it's fine if it sleeps. And when we do want something, we'd rather not wait.

I'm not sure what the original commenter had in mind, but just because our machines are idle when we aren't using them doesn't mean that, that's how we will use computers in the future.

I think notifications are an example even now of the computer not really being idle when we aren't interacting with it.