The PM: “People love watching streamers play games, so people who play games must want to watch a game play itself! Introducing Xbox GamePass CoPilot with Microsoft Flight Simulator CoPilot+, all included with your GamePass Ultra subscription for $199.99 a month! Never play your games again!”

Friends, or billionaires willing to build his state propaganda machine.

I don’t think you can take any numbers coming from this administration seriously, regardless of the institution.

The FBI also recommended people use commercial VPNs… coincidentally they don’t need a warrant to spy on communications that leave the country

It's probably better to let them spy on your highly encrypted traffic going overseas than use a US based service considering that they can march into any US company and start collecting every bit of data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A)

Haven’t heard “black hat marketing” before but that’s very fitting for a lot of the “growth hackers” out there

Will be interesting to see if those still hold any weight (in the US at least) after the latest Meta rulings established defective design as a valid reason to sue big tech for damages

That's not not set yet though. It hasn't made it to appeals yet.

Is it AI or is it Larry subsidizing his dipshit son’s media exec fantasy/throwing money at Trump’s patronage system?

What’s being stolen? AI output isn’t copyrightable, and it’s not like they’re ripping pages out of a book

They can train on the outputs i.e. distillation attacks.

How is that theft?

That’s a big assumption. It’s a brand new account, might be a bot. PR/astroturfing is a great use case for agentic AI

I’d be inclined to agree with the “meh” if their entire product weren’t built off pirated content