Dude screwed up a lot of people’s birthdays or whatever.

Yeah, we’re headed toward Ubik rules alright.

Airlines ABSOLUTELY change their prices if you repeatedly check routes to a city. I have watched them change by over $100 over a few hours a day when contemplating a trip using their flight searches.

I now do all the flight route and time checking with a browser private window, no location being served, and VPN with an exit far from where I am, then use a phone on a cellular network to do any booking or vice versa in order to prevent tracking or some sort of identifying hash they might grab.

It’s such a cheapass scam to basically gouge a customer based on interest.

Time to do something reactionary, poorly thought out, and tantrum-like in an attempt to stay president.

You probably got it. It was just mild enough or resembled a cold enough that you blew it off as something else.

That too.

I’ll check it out. Thanks.

Bunch of drunks running everything.

Nope

Add this one

With taxpayer money.

“Bought and paid for” press.

Perversely my vote brought it to this:

“We can’t make as much money off of them!”

Sometimes when there’s no CoD given for a young person it’s suicide or overdose. People are more willing to share something like “after a courageous battle with cancer…” and not share something that might be considered tarnishing like an addiction.

In your example, many browsers will do simple math or conversions in the address bar without AI, and google gave that same answer prior to AI with a simple conversion menu box that showed up as you said. It still does sometimes depending on the question.

More realistically it would be “How long is a Boeing 747?” Now an AI will give you a length range and offer that there are different 747 models manufactured in different years, etc.

So instead of clicking on an ad-supported “aviation info” site like you say, odds are the asker will just take the provided summary and not proceed any further, or refine the question to a specific model that again an AI will probably answer, even possibly ironically scraping the content from the very same “aviation info” site that would have received your click 5 years ago, but now google gets the view and the site doesn’t.

If you realize your employer is full of BS, you’re already there.

Take it further, and watch out in media for statements like “Market downturn makes Billionaire Bob millions poorer.” Bob the Billionaire will never be poor, and we shouldn’t give a shit about Bob’s billions in wealth that won’t change his day one iota.

Or… “labor costs are the reason we are losing money.” While handing the c-suite bonuses.

Or… “if you take a vacation you’ll be hurting the team.”

TBF Captain Planet is one of those programs that was made specifically to be “woke”, that’s the entire point. I mean, yeah, we can mock it for being so on the nose. Those execs were kids too at one point, watching the good guys beat the bad guys in cartoons. At some point they chose to be the bad guys.

As far as shoehorning in a female (and or other minority), I guess I’m gonna be on thin ice bringing this up… I don’t know why these execs have to force a change to an established character. (Now, hang on before you say “well if all you see is the change then you’re racist… c’mon. Gimme some credit here) That changes the story from being the story to being about the change. There are plenty of shows that have female or other minority characters that make them real, fantastically written, enjoyable, relatable characters for who they are. We need roles written for them. Just like a decently written cis male character. We need much more of that, so we can see everyone as human, real, part of our lives and normal and not some shoehorned personality that needs to be worked around. Woke is about being real as much as it is about the realization that change needs to happen. That all said, I’m not against these changes to established characters. If a young African american girl is thrilled to see a black Little Mermaid, then that’s beautiful. I’m just not happy about the possibility that the young girl grown up might later see the character as shitty corporate pandering to the community (would she be wrong?) rather than having a well-written character and an original story all her own.

No impact on employment? How so?

Weren’t there layoffs due to AI implementation, expected or actual? Or is the time and work-hours needed to correct and understand what AI is doing not realizing the expected savings?

Also, AI/LLM in the popular over-invested sense is the Tesla FSD of corporate tools. A badly designed, over-promised system that doesn’t live up to the hype and far too often commits errors, some of which are lethal or have other serious consequences.

IMO AI should be a tool used in parallel with humans, like research or medical diagnostics, able to see things we might miss or rapidly try new multi-step combinations we might not think of. Not as a human replacement.

Some other societies do a better job of policing themselves via social pressure. Unfortunately in the US it’s “fuck you, you can’t make me.”