Most companies can't eat a half billion dollar loss so who ends up paying this? AI queries burn actual energy so the AI company would have to charge I would think.
A starship captain being really good at math wouldn't surprise me. These people are steeped in science and math since they went to the academy, if not before. And if you're going to live on a starship light years from home you're gonna pick up a bunch of hobbies to keep you busy. Doing math problems seems exactly the type of hobby JL would pick up.
Miles and Julian were impressed with gum by itself. Imagine Janeway's face when she is introduced to it. I bet Katy would set up a transporter cycle to swap out her gum on the regular just to keep the caffeine flowing in.
Necessity is the mother of invention. If you put enough roadblocks in the way these kids will learn same as we did. The only difference is they'll have an LLM and youtube videos to learn what they need instead of BBS, IRC, and books like we used. Kids know how to search the web. They might not know what they don't know but as soon as they search "how do i browse the web without my computer telling on me" and linux comes up then they'll fall down the rabbit hole. It's like you think these kids exist in bubbles.
So they're basically admitting that they don't need this for any computer since if you don't need it for open source why would you need it for closed source? You think kids don't know how to download and install linux? If I could do it with floppies and a book in the 90s then kids today can do it with a USB image and LLM assistance.
But in reality they'll probably just wait for a few years and try and push it through again like how they do with most shitty legislation.
Most companies can't eat a half billion dollar loss so who ends up paying this? AI queries burn actual energy so the AI company would have to charge I would think.