mechanical_bear

A thousand digital monkeys and a thousand terminals..

You need legal insurance.

Cutting yourself off from civilization is not the hallmark of a society that is growing in a positive direction.

Where does this lack ethics? It seems that they are providing a useful service, that they created with their hard work. People are allowed to make money with their work.

It absolutely is. I know of independent researchers doing some side project work on various social media platforms utilizing chatGPT for responses and measuring engagement.

If you give a mouse a cookie…

This has definitely not been my experience, nor my colleagues’ experiences.

nm.

As to your very last point, it isn’t my “job”. It’s yet another task that I take on for no recognition, nor additional pay - as is much of academic life.

“Just a phone” is incredibly reductive, and not an argument made in good faith.

Religions “take” 10% of your income??

Definitely end the H1-B program.

It’s bad for everyone in tech because it drives wages down artificially.

What “we” did? Speak for yourself sir.

Easy to predict the future when you write about it after the fact.