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DDG has been shit for longer than a few months.

StartPage still gives me decent results, and my understanding is that it uses google somehow in the backend, so the capability is still there.

It's (Google) just been polluted by all of the AI and personalized ad bullshit

So behind the scenes we have billions of the "agents" communicating with each other... On behalf of whom, again?

So the corporation that owns all of these "agents" will have complete control over "winners and losers" at every single level of existence.

They will control who (age, gender, race, finance, literally anything) gets to see a doctor because they will be controlling the agents of the people seeking appointments, as well as those of the doctors scheduling appointments. Just as one quick example I thought of.

Limited resources? No sweat, the "agents" know you're white so you can at least have some relief knowing that you'll be ahead of the undesirables when it comes to who gets what they need.

Country X decides they want to try to reign in Meta's now complete control? Well looks like all of the "agents" for the companies responsible for food and water delivery logistics fucked up in Country X. What a sad coincidence.

And the "saddest" part is that there's just nobody to blame. After all, it wasn't done by a person, and you can't send an LLM to prison.

Oh well.

I don't know if that's the entire thing, but it is definitely part of it

Bah gawd, that's Stone Cold's music!

because it is locked, it is able to be unlocked.

I think they're saying that "unlockable" could mean that its not possible to lock said door so no, not already locked

Because people don't generally use it that way and language changes and evolves based largely on how it is used.

caller satisfaction is greater with the TTS system,

You know what's great about the valley callers who don't make it?

No bad survey results!

Cool.

the current rage against AI is 90% driven by the idea that humans need to produce output sothat we can donate to them and give them money sothat they can live.

What an absolutely insane straw man

definitely industrial-scale automation systems. Mostly PLCs, but also SCADA for monitoring. Lots of 20-30 year-old tech. Those networks have no reason to be connected to the internet.

You're talking a massive nation with more systems like this than you could ever imagine. Probably more than all of Europe combined.

They are in every state of repair and disrepair that you could imagine, and many have been receiving government funding for at least at decade now (def more, but I can only speak to the last ten years or so) to replace these systems, including SCADA and PLCs.

So you have a patchwork of countless systems, in every level of tech modernity that you can imagine.

The newer systems usually have an internal network of sorts, and they might have a portal for someone outside the network to log in to remotely monitor.

The problem seems to be that these idiots kept the default credentials, etc.

But to answer you're question, they're not all 20-30 years old, and network connectivity (without being open to the outside internet, obviously), is a very useful feature when replacing those old systems with newer ones.

That's why.

Not only that but it said many of them were using the default login credentials