Fact checking has worked out so well in other places. I mean - social media sites and news outlets plus the groups that fund them being the primary funders of fact checking groups creates absolutely no conflict of interest at all.
Having some personal assistant developed by megacorp that helps me be a better worker for megacorp does sound game changing - but not in a good way.
It's just as much of a fantasy as your dystopian scenario, because neither has happened yet. I'm also somewhat of a luddite and am not at all excited about LLMs or the new wave of "AI" that many others have been swept up by. I'm definitely not trying to "sell" anything.
You're also making the broad assumption that everyone engages in the process of creation, primarily for economic gain. In my encounters with other humans and my own experience, isn't really the case. We create because we enjoy the process of creation, not out of the desire to improve our financial standing.
Most of the work done in large corporations by individual contributors, isn't that creative in the first place. All of those CRUD apps are really pushing the boundaries of creativity!
AI could provide limitless capital and eliminate the need for humans to work. Humans could then spend however much time they wanted on "higher level" creative work. I doubt it will be leveraged in this way, but the potential is certainly there.
Haven't we already been doing this? Here's a better idea - how about the US and everyone else GTFO of Ukraine and stop meddling in Eastern Europe? Biden and Kerry and the US have been doing it since the fall of the Berlin Wall and now we risk WWIII because these greedy politicians can't get enough kick backs from the US military industrial complex.
Let's all hope it yields nothing - the alternative risks article five and global peace. While I'm sure the war hawks in DC and in the white house / capitol building would love to start another world war, I'm not so eager to be thrust into one. I'm sure that sentiment is the same for most of the readers of HN.
They're not missiles they are rockets - unguided munitions. It's easily understandable how two out of one-hundred plus rockets misses its target. In fact it's more understandable than all one-hundred hitting their targets dead on.
Cruise missiles and rockets are not the same. One is an unguided munition and the other is not.
Nothing suggests Poland was targeted on purpose besides your fear-based rhetoric / war mongering.
"Russia cannot be trusted and has bad aim".
This war has turned everyone into a bunch of Russophobes and has really helped to shine a light on how many racist-ass people live in Eastern Europe. Not really surprising though since they hero worship this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera - in Ukraine.
These countries have been committing war crimes against one another for nine years now throughout this history of this proxy war.
Why should we start caring now or sacrifice global stability because of two errant rockets? Your fear-based rhetoric about other NATO countries being targeted because of two errant rockets (rockets are unguided munitions btw, not cruise missiles) is ridiculous.
Having some personal assistant developed by megacorp that helps me be a better worker for megacorp does sound game changing - but not in a good way.