As someone born, raised, and currently living in the UK, this is the first time I've heard of this. It's literally never come up or been an issue anywhere in the past 50 years I've been alive, and I've lived all over these isles. A bizarre OP.
> > It seems like that's exactly what it would have to do post acquisition--unless of course the US also plans to bulldoze Greenland's sovereignty.
I don't want to repeat what others are saying, but how on earth could you not consider that all of the existing rules, laws and agreements just go in the trash under a new "owner"? Of course the US plans to bulldoze Greenland's sovereignty, goodness me.
To be fair the US acquired American Samoa and kept a lot of their law in place even to the point you can do stuff in American Samoa that would be unconstitutional like limit power of women in some of the tribal councils (sorry they have a better name but I've forgotten), do not provide 2nd amendment protections required inside the USA, and limit ownership of land based on ethnic lines.
The USA also for instance rehabilitated Philippines from Japanese rape islands into an independent nation by taking them as a territory.
The UK is just saying the quiet part out loud. If you look at the EARN IT Act in the US or the "Chat Control" proposals in the EU, then the trajectory is identical. The UK is providing the "democratic" precedent that the rest of the Five Eyes will use as leverage. If you think the US isn't eyeing the Online Safety Act as a convenient trial run for overt or covert domestic policy, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
EDIT: You added a lot more after I replied to your post.
Apparently the reason why chatGPT really likes the “it’s not just x, it’s y” structure is its overuse in marketing copy.
Maybe this marketer actually has internalized that structure for real.
Feels like a trial balloon. Yes, this one went badly. It was awful slop. But there will be another. And another. And I feel like for most people catching an ad on TV, the realisation that AI made it will decrease or won't bother them over time. The frog will be boiled.
Those "trial balloons" happened years ago, this is only news because it was pulled and because it was a pretty bad advert anyway. Coca-cola had some backlash for its use of AI in adverts ages ago and carried on anyway.
There's tons of gen-AI in adverts and most of it isn't newsworthy. The frog is stewed.
