> It gives more autonomy and the EU was a spanner in the works

And yet the biggest trading partner now dictates the standards, now without any UK input.

Back in the days this was to lock up the hard disk read/write head. Maybe a relic from those times instead?

Apple is not known for backwards-compatibility, and they were already using SSDs in their laptops long before switching to ARM.

People have the ability to think critically, LLMs don't. Comparing them to people is giving them properties they do not possess. The fact people ignore thinking does not preclude them from being able to. The assistant got a lousy job and did it with the minimal effort possible to get away from it. None of these things apply or should apply to machines.

So the questions I'd ask are: How far spread is this manipulation, does it work for non-niche topics and who's benefiting from it.

Very, yes, and pretty much anyone that doesn't want to spend their days implementing counter-meaeurements to shut down their scrapers by hiding the content behind a login. I do it all the time, it's fun.

I'm gonna single out Grokipedia as something deterministic enough to be able to easily prove it. I can easily point to sentences there (some about broad-ish topics) that are straight up Markov chain quality versions of sentences I've written. I can make it say anything I want to say or I can waste my time trying to fight their traffic "from Singapore" (Grok is the only "mainstream" LLM that refuses to identify itself via a user agent). Not really a tough choice if you ask me.

20k for such a setup for a hobbyist? You can leave the somewhat away and go into sub 1% region globally. A kw of power is still 2k/year at least for me, not that I expect it will run continuously but still not negligible if you can do with 100-200 a year on cheap subscriptions.

I used to think photography was an expensive hobby until my wife got back into the horse world.

He also gets the best training money can buy and CEOs make enough to justify them giving a perfect presentation. It's not like you ask some lone employee to do it. The proverbial buck stops somewhere.

He also gets the softest questions money can buy, because he's bought practically every congressperson.

Why? There is huge compatibility layer build on top of this and changing even these minor things will break stuff in places you do not expect. Want a fancy terminal? Install another one. By default most allow changing to many terminal formats. Break things to move forward is fun when it's not your problem to solve down the line.

This is what "AI" advertised to solve. It is a perfectly fine question.

Either I'm one of the stupid ones or this is missing an article.

Ah, that's why Paix Dieu is such good beer. The electrons are aligned.