> Why can't it be both?

Is the government going to fund all further development? Hard to imagine investors continuing to throw billions at products they aren't allowed to sell.

Why wouldn't they? They see this technology as a military asset now.

Honestly, with the caliber of people who currently comprise the US administration; leaving the whole thing to Openclaw and some new fancy model might not be the worst idea.

Trump and friends are only interested in investments they can personally make money from.

Did you read the article?

The whole point is that these particular defamatory claims weren't made by some third-party, but hallucinated entirely by Google's own AI.

There is no "accurate summary". Just a pack of lies fabricated in-house at Google.

It probably will be once all the appeals have finished.

You can't just bypass national courts and go straight to the EU.

> I get the distrust of large corporations and other obvious bad actors […]

> the blanket cynicism for all telemetry here is kinda surprising

Who's providing the telemetry/analytics if not one of same large corporations?

Many devs say they care about user privacy, but very few seem to care enough not to farm surveillance out to a 3rd-party they have no control over.

> Who's providing the telemetry/analytics if not one of same large corporations?

Erm. It would be me? The idea was that the app (not a web app btw) would send back data about which features were being used (to a server I control) so I could build up a picture of how often various features were being used relative to other features. Nothing remotely personally identifiable.

On official occasions.

British aristos tend to be outdoor sorts. Range Rover and a Barbour jacket.

QEII was always in wellies whenever she was off the clock.

But Kerouac didn't just crap his thoughts onto the page.

He edited his work heavily to achieve just the stream of consciousness feel he wanted.

A large part of the problem, imo, is that people haven't used the ability to talk to the entire planet as an opportunity to broaden their horizons, but to build themselves a transnational bubble of like-minded individuals.

Once upon a time, shouting "WTF are they thinking?" into the void was kinda understandable, but these days you can literally just ask them by changing a URL. Don't even have to go to a dodgy pub in an iffy part of town.

That said, assuming bad faith is so common these days, many people assume you're lying if your stated motives don't match their preconceptions.

> That said, assuming bad faith is so common these days, many people assume you're lying if your stated motives don't match their preconceptions.

A brutal reality to navigate if you're not acting in bad faith.

Ne, kannst du eigentlich nicht.

Du bist ja der liebevollmegahackerdorkygamingklugscheißerdatenrausch‑Guy!

::I am not a native speaker — intended to be playful::

I'm not a native-speaker either, but becoming so assimilated that jokes are no longer a laughing matter …

Sending someone something that'll take them longer to read than it took you to write is taking the piss.

I think that's a good rule of thumb for AI-generated output.

What if?

That's exactly what they do. It's 80c/month in Argentina.

Indeed, so what’s OP complaining about?