Humans, you know, are also "trained" as they grow up. And the new generations, growing up much more exposed to the AI-generated media from the earliest ages, may as well end up finding AI porn just as — if not more — sexy as human-produced porn. That too is a speculation, yes, but considering the whole history of humanity full of vast shifts in cultural and aesthetic norms, it's a very mild speculation.
While I hesitate to use it in this context, reminds of one of Planck's principle - "progress, on funeral at a time"
Not necessarily - bankruptcy is not the same as defaulting. Bankruptcy, or threatening it, would be an effort to prevent default and instead renegotiate the existing debt, likely with lenders taking a signficant haircut.
Rivian made these, designed in collaboration with Amazon. There are a few points that make this a straightforward choice from an outsider's perspective.
- There's the efficiency and morale improvements, which others mentioned.
- There's also the better data tracking they'll have to make future improvements on all aspects of the delivery process.
- Amazon purchased 100,000 of these as well as equity (warrants I assume) in Rivian, so they received some of the upside after helping Rivian scale.
- Finally, I believe most (all?) of these delivery companies are contracted by Amazon and lease the vehicles from Amazon, so I'm sure they can make the unit economics work.
Student loans were forgivable through bankruptcy until the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. In 1976 there were some limitations put in place for the first 5 years, but student loans not ever being forgivable in bankruptcy is relatively recent.