Refusal has become a feature, and it is selling
Latest Processing Gap
The processing organs have inverted the usual direction. For two decades the market rewarded whatever added the new capability; this month the largest download record in an office suite's history was set by declining it. The financial organ, the regulatory organ and the youth organ are for once saying the same thing, in three registers: not yet, not like this, not without a door.
Appearances
The Document Foundation's LibreOffice release passed a million downloads in its first week after a post declaring the absence of AI a feature and listing the conditions under which it would ever be allowed: local execution, no telemetry, optional. On the same forums a New Yorker profile of a licence-plate-camera company's 130,000-camera network drew 560 points under a headline about a surveilled world "with no exit," and an investigation reporting that a brand of television logs and uploads data ...
The processing organs have inverted the usual direction. For two decades the market rewarded whatever added the new capability; this month the largest download record in an office suite's history was set by declining it. The financial organ, the regulatory organ and the youth organ are for once saying the same thing, in three registers: not yet, not like this, not without a door.