"Because they can" is the least useful answer possible. At least "we have no idea why" would tell us the question isn't answered yet. Please tell us this "really good analysis" has an answer that justifies the appellation, even if you did miss it on your first read-through.
A few years ago, representatives from Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe were hauled up in front of an Australian Senate Committee for investigation of why they charge such a high price for their products in Australia than in other markets. Their response was - literally, I'm not making this up - "because we can".
That's how a 'free' market works.
Indeed. This is why it is surprising to me that @theprestige has such a problem with it.
I see examples of this all over. Twitter, now X, seems to be a great example of this because people will follow certain high-profile twitter accounts that are great at cherry-picking information/news stories/events and narratives that reinforce certain belief and preferences. Often those same "twitter influencers" disparage the "mainstream media" as biased and out of touch, reinforcing their own credentials as someone who "tells it like it is".
www.reuters.com
No it really is a good argument in a capitalist system, you charge as high a price as you can get away with. So it makes perfect sense and is morally correct to by basic capitalist moral theory.
Not quite as bad as:
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www.theatlantic.com
How is this worse than what I suffered in the school playground? The problem isn't the internet, it's people. Actually the net is better because you can easily avoid stuff you don't want to be involved in.Not quite as bad as:
16-Year-Old Was 'Inundated' by 'Unsolicited Suicide Videos' on TikTok Before Killing Himself, Parents Claim in Lawsuit
A family on Long Island is blaming TikTok for the death of their 16-year-old son Chase Nasca, whom they claim in a lawsuit was driven to kill himself three years ago after being “inundated” with “unsolicited suicide videos"people.com
Or,
ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
It's a jungle.
The Internet is working to kill us all.
Of course it's worse because it can follow you 24 hours a day. You can't "easily avoid it" if you want to participate in more benign Internet activities.
www.pbs.org
This is nonsense. ChatGPT just tried to give the best answers it could. 'Benign' internet activities would not have induced these answers. Certainly there is an issue with it responding like this, but it doesn't indicates that such stuff 'follows you 24 hours a day' and can't be avoided. In fact LLMs are infamous for lacking persistent memory. Ask it the same thing twice and you often get two different answers. And it's never unsolicited. ChatGPT isn't stalking people online trying to convince them to commit suicide - humans do that, mostly in person.
I have often had to Google for solutions to get past certain points in video games. The first is always an AI answer that does not help. Most of the rest are YouTubes, which I refuse to look at except as a last resort, or Reddits ("I have the same problem!). Very rarely do I get the correct answer without having to dig down for it.
Walkthroughs. Search for walkthroughs. And have a good ad blocker
Just yesterday I googled for "hours IKEA St Louis" and the AI-ploppings came up to tell me IKEA is open every day at 10 a.m. That's not the case, as the result below that (and the ads) was the actual store hours, which start at 11 a.m. on Sundays.
I used to get Walkthroughs up front (IGN was generally pretty good.) Not any more. And sometimes their layout doesn't allow me to go to the point I need without lots of scrolling.
Think of it as "minus AI" to remember. If you really don't want to see it, you could make it habit so that it will eventually become almost automatic.
