🚨 Unpopular opinion: Yes, the U.S. does regulate tech. Sometimes BETTER than the EU. Amazon deployed dark patterns, Amazon will pay $2.5 billion. Here's a MEMORABLE quote from the FTC's complaint against Amazon: "For years, Amazon also knowingly complicated the cancellation process for Prime subscribers who sought to end their membership. Under significant pressure from the Commission—and aware that its practices are legally indefensible—Amazon substantially revamped its Prime cancellation process for at least some subscribers shortly before the filing of this Complaint. However, prior to that time, the primary purpose of the Prime cancellation process was not to enable subscribers to cancel, but rather to thwart them. Fittingly, Amazon named that process 'Iliad,' which refers to Homer’s epic about the long, arduous Trojan War. Amazon designed the Iliad cancellation process ('Iliad Flow') to be labyrinthine, and Amazon and its leadership—including Lindsay, Grandinetti, and Ghani—slowed or rejected user experience changes that would have made Iliad simpler for consumers because those changes adversely affected Amazon’s bottom line." - 👉 If you want to learn more about dark patterns, particularly in the data protection context, I'm adding a link to my 2022 paper "Dark Patterns in Personal Data Collection: Definition, Taxonomy, and Lawfulness." 👉 Never miss my insights: join my newsletter's 79,000+ subscribers (link below).

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What did Ilya see? Nothing — he saw nothing, because we're nowhere close to achieving "AGI" (whatever that means exactly).