I don't think this is a good argument to make in general, as the contrapositive is that if it has good engineering, it was a good idea to build.

For example, nuclear weapons are certainly well-engineered, but I think it's reasonable to disagree on if they were a good idea or not.

Zero of your links talk about China pushing anti-AI sentiment, as far as I can tell.

linking .gov as a source for a claim the government is making lol

> I'm not asking about morality or ethics. Does it make sense to make this scenario (Craigslist ad) illegal?

Why shouldn't we consider morality or ethics in what we decide is illegal?

Likewise, poorer customers are less able to avoid this kind of price discrimination at the grocery store.

If you walk or take the bus to the grocery store, you have fewer grocery stores to shop around for a deal at. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you're less able to stock up on, say, cold medicine, when you see a good deal (and more likely to pay the "we know you're sick" price). And if you're time-poor (because you're working two jobs, and neither are the kind you can browse the Internet at while your code is compiling), you're less able to do comparison shopping, or notice that the price of what you need is always more expensive than when you don't.

They're buying the credibility of the influencers.

Influencers have the greatest influence on their audience, especially repeat viewers who follow or subscribe to them. You need to establish credibility with an audience before you're worth anything to the marketers. This takes time to build.

OpenAI's hypothetical robot influencers have no audience.

Weird, I've seen countless instagram posts telling me the five prompts I need to have ChatGPT run my account and grow it to millions of followers.

Not sure if I'm missing some sarcasm in your post - apologies if so. But as always, if it actually worked, they'd just be making money off of their many million-follower accounts, instead of telling you how to do it.

I guess on the internet some portion of the audience is going to be ignorant of how things work, but I did have higher hopes for everyone on HN.

I guess not all people realize how deeply entrenched use of influencers and other means of astro-turfing are in use at all times.

Maybe we need a catchy little phrase to explain how it works.

"If you're using influencers you're evil. If you're not using influencers you're stupid".

Well, I haven't tried asking my open-weight LLM for the FBI employee database. I imagine most people haven't.

Tinfoil hat theory - the "malware" and the blog post are written by the same LLM agent, intended only to drive views to a blog rather than accomplish anything malicious.

The tenants might have a bit more money to claw back if the landlord wasn't extracting predatory fees in excess of what the renter was signing up for.

There's a lot of reader-mode extensions out there - I'm not sure which ones are good nowadays.

Makes sense - there's lots of ways to do it wrong. If you crop a jpeg and re-save it as a jpeg, you'll introduce artifacts.