It depends so much on the circumstances. And they would also have to prove to some degree that it was intentional.

I can only really speak for Sweden. They can forcibly use your fingerprint or face to unlock it. But you are under no obligation to give up a password to begin with.

It’s also a question of if they have officially confiscated it or not.

What is it you think we’re talking about? This isn’t some LLM. It’s a very specific purposebuilt piece of software to analyse data from earthquakes and recordable shifts in the tectonic plates.

I disagree with your assessment. Modern machine learning methods will result in a far more complex algorithm than any human could device on their own. It will be “cheap” to execute, but only because of the vast amount of data it’s been trained on. That’s the strength. The raw number of calculations it can do per second means it can sift through more data in a day than a human could in its lifetime.

The biggest danger is hidden local minimums that can potentially distort new results and findings. But that’s not unique to machine learning. And you can let the AI grade its result with how certain it is. Automatically flag any result that falls below a certain threshold. And again, this is where the danger of local minimum come in. Because it can raise the certainty of results when maybe it shouldn’t be so certain. Though you will find out quickly when results are false with high certainty. Then you go back and you keep working at it.

As of this particular topic of earthquakes. There are no traditional tools of accurately predicting them. We’ve never been able to do it before. Now they think this might be able to. So we will just have to wait and see if its predictions are accurate or not.

How about you read the article before you start being outraged over your own false assumptions

If that’s what you think, you severely underestimate how much money there is in the world.

Spotify didn’t start seeing yearly profits until 2024.

Twitter didn’t see profits in a single quarter until 12 years after they started. And only went 2 years with actual profits from inception until they were bought out.

Took YouTube 9 years before they saw any profits.

Point being. It’s very normal for big tech companies to not make money for quite some time. OpenAI isn’t alone. It’s the rule rather than the exception.

Will they go tits up? I don’t know. Time will tell. But my guess is that investors will keep pumping in money for at least another 10 years.

If it was a non-issue they wouldn’t introduce this to begin with.

There’s not a single good reason to why an OS would ever need to know someone’s age.