I, too, speak ridiculously fast. People laugh at me and some (a lot of) people have problems understanding me. As much as I try, as soon as I am not paying attention I speak at the same pace again. Did you manage to slow down your speech consistently?

I did! It took me a few months though. You just have to work at it a lot and be very conscious of your speech.

Thanks! I will keep trying then. I was starting to assume that was me and that's it.

I tried the same with my father's little village (Zarza Capilla, in Spain), and it gave a surprisingly good answer in a couple of seconds. Amazing.

You will, most people won't.

Baiting people with "no cost" services, and then using their data in ways that people might not agree with, hiding behind 10 subpages to click through or a huge "how we protect your data (NOT)" text is no solution though.

What would be a solution, but one that the companies don't want, is to offer a service either as a paid service or truly at no cost which includes no privacy cost. But they are afraid of doing that, because they fear that then they can't hitch the ride on data taken from users, who are not informed and who only clicked some accept button, because the business kept nagging them about it, instead of accepting a "no".

I have to admit though, that Google did better than most other big techs, as they do provide a consent dialog, where rejecting is as easy as accepting. See for example YouTube. And not sure about Google search, since I don't use it these days. However, I did not research (and that's how one would have to call it), whether rejecting is truly adhered to, or they sneak in not actually needed things as "functional cookies" or something.

However, lets not have any illusions here. If the EU didn't demand things to improve and didn't impose fines, big tech would have done exactly nothing of the sort.

Because they know that even if you pay it's very unlikely that they will respect the deal anyways.

And yet all of the cleaners are foreigners.

This is simply not possible as they depend on the EU for everything, and the EU requires having free movement of people. Just populist nonsense.

Any link on that?

The difference is that AI is a huge array of technologies (not only LLMs) and are being used in several fields with different, useful purposes.

There's a cult and a bubble too, though, and I agree with that part.

Should I root for the democratic OpenAI, Google or Microsoft instead?

Further more, who thinks our little voices matter anymore in the US when it comes to the investor classes?

And if they did, having a counterweight against corrupt self-centered US oligarchs/CEOs is actually one of the biggest proponents for an actual powerful communist or other model world power. The US had some of the most progressive tax policies in its existence when it was under existential threat during the height of the USSR, and when their powered started to diminish, so too did those tax policies.

The motive is to destroy the American supremacy on AI, it's not that deep. This is much easier to do open sourcing the models than competing directly, and this can have good ramifications for everybody, even if the motive is "bad".

If almost all times you refer to a number is base 10, it is very redundant to mention it every time.