@tante the boosters do not care. I had a coworker tell me to my face yesterday that we need to stop relying on "internal expertise" at our company, and instead hand that off to LLMs to write tests to validate everything. This was after I pointed out to him that the majority of tests the LLM wrote for him were fake, and tested nothing. You could write code that severely broke what the LLM has written for him and the tests would have continued to pass. How can we give up on the expertise we have, and give up on further building that expertise, if the tools aren't capable of doing the work? If you can't validate the output then you're guaranteed to create a catastrophic failure in the future.

@campuscodi They've already factored in the cost of government enforcement. I don't have the exact numbers, but they calculated that at most they'd lose something like 10% of the revenue from the scam ads due to enforcement, so it was worth it to keep allowing them.

I'm not saying that governments shouldn't crack down on this, but I don't think we can expect enforcement to make a difference until laws are changed that make the enforcement actually meaningful, until then they'll keep exposing their users to scams, and they'll keep profiting, while paying a small enforcement tax.

@ratfactor I love this so much

@fromjason there are undoubtedly more. Multiple people disappeared from the system with no evidence they were deported, you just couldn't look up what facility they were in anymore. We have no clue how many lives have been taken. We probably won't know for years.