Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.
Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two, as they’re colored in red.
“And … what do you do?”
“Are you sure you’re ready to know?”
Which one of those guys is William Tell?
My only ‘smart’ appliance is a desktop monitor … and I re-pointed its ‘report’ feature to a non-existant URL. Want my data? Maybe, but they’ll have pay for each bit.
Wouldn’t doubt it if they did market to kids. TV networks did it for decades, every Saturday morning, with no FCC challenges.
PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently. Corporations exist for one purpose. Will government stop them?
MTV was like radio was for decades before it came along. Black artists with great music and no hits would get covered by cheesy white artists like Pat Boone who got big hits. Baked into the system.
Of course Bowie grew up in a place where the BBC handled alla that kind of sorting.
“addiction in children’s brains”
I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did the corporations care? Probably not. Would they have at one time, here in the US? Yes, back when legislators were answerable to their constituents. At one time the FCC worried about the lyrics in songs on the radio. The population was more uptight about it. Then.
OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn’t need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn’t for everyone.
LOL well CharlesDarwin, you know, they’re too evolved for prison … they just go hide somewhere until everyone forgets…
But lots and LOTS of people are resigning their jobs around the world. The last one will be the, uh, cherry on top.
“It’s bad for our industry, it’s bad for our country, it’s bad for consumers.”
I think they (accidentally, of course) left out the people that it’s worst for.
Once these guys are gone, where are the Better Business Bureaus gonna find smarmy guys in suits?
Many dozens of major hit songs in the pre-Beatles 50s and 60s were covers of sons previously recorded by black artists. The covering bands & labels did not have to get permission to cover the songs … the laws allowed anyone to record them it without negotiating a license, but still had to pay the statutory royalty fees.
Before Alan Freed, black music was not played on most radio stations.
From the article:
"A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI … About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles…
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source."
This is the guy who bankrupted 4 casinos. Clearly what he’s best at.
then you develop policies and commence actions to drive that imagery to make it a reality.”
Not enough reality for too many years.
Cash they’ve got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.
Still Boss.
Richard Stallman sez we should call it ‘PI’ … pretend intelligence.
because … if we don’t live by the rule of law … they’ll be out of work?
I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.
Parents will get the behavior they reinforce. My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER responded. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.