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I would say no, because even physical devices you purchase have to come with subscription plans or in some way talk back to the manufacturers servers that isn't in your interest.

Maybe but even there there are limits on how much they will be willing to spend for junior level programming no matter how much of a ship fast fix broken methodology they adopt.

The public assumption that AI can't tell fact from fiction and confidently makes stuff up doesn't seem at odds with them being able to spin a good yarn.

You managed to set up that tech stack but needed an agent with unrestricted access to figure out the time was wrong 😂

There are skill issues and a lack of imagination here but it's not from people dismissing the use of LLM...

Capitalism for me but not for thee. Arent state enforced monopolies more of a communist thing though?

Seems the proof more or less already existed and the LLM helped the researchers find it and demonstrate it applied to the problem they were researching? Basically doing grunt work literature searches that grad students might have done in the past.

Hasn't the output from LLM already been ruled ineligible for copyright protection?

You are right, they were already doing that but the annoying popups aren't because of the EU, the sites could just not set cookies to collect data they didn't need to provide the service by default and not nag you constantly to let them have their way. It's operation "wear them down" .

The EU didn't make anyone do that, site that have no business recoding the information put those up as a dark pattern to try and force people into accepting the terms so they can claim informed consent to the tracking. It's malicious compliance, they could just not collect that tracking data that isn't required to provide the service.

I've met plenty of people who were smart in one very specific domain and dumb as bricks in pretty much all other areas. People around them would praise them from being smart but they just seemed ordinary or even below average outside their niche and I'd never refer to them as being smart myself.

Maybe you are being elitist by putting this guy you knew on a pedestal when outside that one skill he impressed you with he was actually a pretty dumb person.

Unlike Wikipedia, the references supplied by LLM output often point to material that doesn't actually support the LLM output. This can be because the LLM misapplies it to the wrong context or because it's incorrectly correlated and has nothing to do with what the LLM output making it unhelpful for determining the accuracy of the output.

Sure it is, if I look something up in an encyclopedia or training material written by a subject matter expert I have high trust in its content. If I ask an AI I have low trust in its content. The two are not equivalent.