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sounds almost like the Acadian dish “Poutine Rapeé” (not to be confused with the Quebecois dish “Poutine” aka Cheese Fries with Gravy).

Poutine Rapeé is a big potato dumpling made with salted pork and onion inside a mixture of grated potato (with most of the starch removed) and cooked potato. Form into balls the size of two fists and boil until the ghosts of your ancestors tell you they’re done. Delicious!

as if a human didn’t ask it to access the data in question, however many times was necessary for it to happen.

once they figured out that we weren’t willing to murder each other on their behalf, their next moves became pretty obvious

next time, tell your boss that Claude should replace him, not you.

He was definitely well spoken and definitely had a good message. It’s not at all surprising that we haven’t heard of him.

gee, how difficult would it be to get the same AI to start creating posts that seem like us, but with slightly different political views?
How difficult would it be for FB to lock a bunch of loudmouths out of their accounts and generate posts on their behalf, steadily shifting to the right over time?

of course, “they would NEVER do that”.
Right.
Because all of the things that people said they would never do, they already have done, and continue to do.