I was writing a long reply about how even meat bags have amassed enough money and power to rival elected governments. I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility to think an AI could do that.
Couple that with mass unemployment in an incredibly vast, diverse population of individuals with individual moral boundaries willing to do whatever for money.
And then.. figured that you must be aware because it's been explored constantly in sci-fi for many, many years.
If there's more than enough grapes for everyone and one person takes more than their fair share, then, on the whole, it's fine. There's enough to go round.
If everyone tries to take more than their fair share, then the whole system falls apart.
When there are this many people, and this much visibility of the hustle, just seeing others prosper by cheating means a not insubstantial number of people will be in the "well I want grapes, and likely need to cheat to make sure I get my fair share" camp.
"A bug in our portal had the setting for training inverted. This means that when you expected us not to be training on your data, we actually were.
We know this adversely impacts the trust our users invested in us, so as of today we are crediting all affected accounts with $200 to use on our latest models".
Until the risk of large financial penalties or long jail times is high enough, the CEOs of there companies operate using the "It's Better to Ask for Forgiveness Than Permission" model.
Ironically, having never been flagged - I've just restarted Claude Desktop and it's flagged a conversation that has already been completed.
In a long session pulling data from all over the place it created a pretty PDF.
"create this as a google doc that can be commented on"
Done — the full v0.5 content is now a Google Doc in your Drive...
"Ah, the formatting has gone. Do it in google slides please"
The brand studio has a native Google Slides path for exactly this — building the deck now.
Google Slides created.
Then today:
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My understanding is they considered a vote on the type of brexit, but were pretty convinced the public would vote for a hard brexit that no one in the regime wanted.
Britons may choose to change their minds but this is not a single party decision. The EU will likely not readmit them on the same terms and the UK is not nearly as powerful or relevant to European interests as it once was.
As a safe far away island, the UK has much more use in a captive alliance to defend a threatened continent than it is as a participant in Europe that gets special exemptions. And Europe already has them for that.
Couple that with mass unemployment in an incredibly vast, diverse population of individuals with individual moral boundaries willing to do whatever for money.
And then.. figured that you must be aware because it's been explored constantly in sci-fi for many, many years.
Let's hope for the culture at least.
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