I get that and I think I would do the same. But you have to realize that a loved one asking you this question is clearly not trying to trick you. Rather, you could see it as them giving you an opportunity to show how lovely you are. It’s the setup for a joke and you can make them smile.

My ex told me they would build me the most beautiful worm house and then go on a quest to track down the wizard who cursed me. I thought that was beautiful.

Do you live in the European Union? If so, you should have access to an effective internal complaints system and the ability to appeal to an independent arbitrator.

You’re right of course. Habeas corpus alone isn’t enough to stop all of this, particularly against an administration that is blatantly undermining the courts.

Habeas corpus doesn’t prevent illegal imprisonment, it’s only a procedure to (eventually) free people after the fact. That procedure is still in place, it just takes a lot of time. Habeas corpus was used successfully to free Rümeysa Öztürk (detained for writing an op-ed). But many others are still detained because the process is slow and the DOJ is deliberately obstructing everything.

There’s a company that unironically calls itself “Mendix”.

Websites do not have access to your IMEI. That’s only a concern when you use the app.

Err does anyone on the right actually think we have secure borders?

Yes, Trump and his administration keep saying this.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/promises-made-promises-kept-border-security-achieved-in-fewer-than-100-days/

“The Invasion of our Country is OVER.” https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114088564162922800

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/28/100-days-most-secure-border-american-history

Sorry I cannot decipher this post.

The first gamer pope 😎

I asked ChatGPT and it says he still needs his glasses while not in costume. So that settles this debate.

/s

These are not remotely the same. The effects of Musk’s cuts are monstrous and will lead to countless preventable deaths. Don’t dismiss that criticism just because it’s coming from Gates.

Fun fact, the can opener was invented more than 80 years after people started putting food in tin cans.

Read the article, it’s in the second paragraph.

Don’t worry, DOGE will just fire the investigators before that happens.

Nerve gas also doesn’t have morals. It just kills people in a horrible way. Does that mean that we shouldn’t study their effects or debate whether they should be used?

At least when you drop a bomb there is no doubt about your intent to kill. But if you use a chatbot to defraud consumers, you have plausible deniability.

That was only my first point. In my second and third point I explained why education is not going to solve this problem. That’s like poisoning their candy and then educating them about it.

I’ll add to say that these AI applications only work because people trust their output. If everyone saw them for the cheap party tricks that they are, they wouldn’t be used in the first place.

The fact that they lack sentience or intentions doesn’t change the fact that the output is false and deceptive. When I’m being defrauded, I don’t care if the perpetrator hides behind an LLM or not.

It’s rather difficult to get people who are willing to lie and commit fraud for you. And even if you do, it will leave evidence.

As this article shows, AIs are the ideal mob henchmen because they will do the most heinous stuff while creating plausible deniability for their tech bro boss. So no, AI is not “just like most people”.

Ok, so your point is that people who interact with these AI systems will know that it can’t be trusted and that will alleviate the negative consequences of its misinformation.

The problems with that argument are many:

• The vast majority of people are not AI experts and do in fact have a lot of trust in such systems

• Even people who do know often have no other choice. You don’t get to talk to a human, it’s this chatbot or nothing. And that’s assuming the AI slop is even labelled as such.

• Even knowing that the information can be misleading does not help much. If you sell me a bowl of candy and tell me that 10% of them are poisoned, I’m still going to demand non-poisoned candy. The fact that people can no longer rely on accurate information should be unacceptable.