This means they connect the government ID with the AI prompts. So this is a major privacy fuckup, adding a nice method of surveillance to the toolbox of the government.

If it was really about education they could have created randomly-named accounts and each person would get an account randomly assigned.

I agree with most of your points, I’m a software dev, same age and am using AI for writing/outlining boiler plate code, like unit test, translation resource files (which will be later filled by human made translations) and sometimes to do simple task in parallel, while I work on the more tricky parts of the code. So it’s a help, but it’s limited. In some areas where I have very deep knowledge, I immediately spot issues, then take a lot of time to refine prompts and tweak the agent and I still get mediocre results. For someone with average knowledge the results look plausible, even good, but as an expert I always see countless flaws. I don’t think this will improve much as we’re around a local optimum of AI and don’t expect any improvements for quite a while. That’s why I gave up on AI for anything complex and only use it to do the most boring stuff for me.

Microsoft is unaware that students need a reliable device, this also means a stable OS which they can’t offer.

Oh, I don’t care if they care about me. The attention of my comment was to express how unimportant YouTube has become for me.

I know of PeerTube and like the concept. Out of my 57 subscribed channels only 2 are available via PeerTube, 4 more are available on other sites. I hope this will improve. I’m not using the normal YouTube interface. I’ve customised it to my needs with injected scripts plus additional cosmetic blocking, e.g. I filter out unwanted search results and removed all shorts. For now it works well enough. Anyway, I’m already in the process of reducing YouTube consumption.

No, I don’t see them and the day I cannot block ads anymore is the day I am going to stop using YouTube. It’s really not that important to life.

In instances where there is no legal way to watch something piracy hurts nobody as the company would not have made money from me anyway. It doesn’t even hurt the artists, the refusal of the distributer to offer content worldwide is the real scandal that everyone in the creative industry should tackle.

In my experience way too many people are ignorant in regards of negative effects of AI usage and the data centers, both in regard to global environmental problems and the catastrophic consequences for the local population in the vincinity of large data centers. And there is the partially illegal acquisition/processing of training data, esp. the permanent storage of the original copyrighted works. That kind of ignorance is far worse than being ignorant to the couple of use cases where AI can be helpful. And that’s why I dislike AI-fan-boying.