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I’m just imagining someone saying this in response to OP’s joke at a party and this is the (natural) response

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It’s not even just private equity, this is more or less the exact strategy Microsoft uses.

It’s crazy how once these companies get big enough, they become a cancer that just slowly self-destructs. Everything that’s going wrong in their business can be blamed solely on them. Just all around gross incompetence in the most absurd, blatant way possible. I really hope that, in the near future, we see the main opinion of Microsoft finally coming around to understanding this redundant company’s pig-brained, slop-obsessed stupidity.

If it’s ageism then there shouldn’t be any minimum age for voting either, no? By your logic, since there’s no set age for lacking the mental cognition to vote, under-18s should be allowed to as well.

That’s not greed though. I’ll say it again but more explicitly: Greed is not an illness, it’s a kind of behaviour that anyone can exhibit through their actions. It doesn’t matter whether they’re an average person or someone with an anti-social disorder, that applies regardless.

I think one of the fundamental problems is that we treat mental disorders like they’re some sort of specialized set of adjectives. Being unfocused is “ADHD”. Being shy or fixated on a specific topic is “autistic”. Being emotionally charged in a stressful situation is “bipolar”. We do that and it undermines what it’s actually like to have and deal with those conditions every day, and makes people who actually have them seem “crazy” or “creepy” to people who are just ignorant. It really sets the general consensus back hard.

I honestly think the greed will (and should now) be considered a mental illness.

At that point it would just be excusing bad behaviour, would it not? I wouldn’t say putting it on the same level as mental illness is fair, either. People with mental illnesses don’t want to be mentally ill. On the other hand, greed is a trait that directly shows itself in a person’s decisions. You can choose to be greedy, you can’t choose to have, say, arachnophobia.

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That’s very fair, it’s definitely in the vein of what LLMs are (theoretically) meant for, i.e. summarization and language parsing/analysis. I find that LLMs work pretty well for translation too. It’s just a shame that executives have run it to the ground like they usually do. And the people poisoning us are the same ones treating it in this case.

You mean the YouTube that dumps out AI summaries of the videos you’re on their platform specifically to watch directly? That YouTube?

Surely they aren’t a company composed of two-faced slimeballs like their parent. That would be unheard of.

Waiter! Waiter! I’ll have my billionaire with a side of politician, please!

Do you faint whenever you hear about the existence of meat-eating animals?

I don’t think they can afford to

These people literally have fuck you money, they can afford a fuck-up like the AI bubble popping tens of times over if not endlessly with their countless legal loopholes. Their attitudes are based purely on having never faced repercussions for their societal parasitism and an insatiable desire for “more”.

Meta in court (for the 900th time): Your honour, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

They’re saying that a lot of Copilot functionality comes bundled in with Microsoft 365 plans, which a big portion of organizations pay for. That’s opposed to paying for Microsoft subscriptions dedicated specifically to Copilot, that being what your source is describing.

To be fair Poe’s law is a pretty common problem in internet communication. Obviously ambiguity of intent is pretty easily avoided with good writing but it’s also convenient for a lot of people to be able to dodge that with a few relatively standardized characters. Although I can agree in the sense that it often feels like a lazy fix for otherwise bad jokes or dialogue, too often I see something in the vein of “WE NEED TO BLOW UP ORPHANAGES!!! /j” and because there’s a tone indicator in there it somehow manages to write off the lack of actual quality.

idk ask the internet, I’m just trying to be helpful

/gen means genuine, it’s a tone indicator. Another one you might see is /s for sarcastic or /j for joking