Possibly dumb question: What makes this a "Corolla" as opposed to a new car that happens to have the same brand name?

I would be very concerned if an RNG simply produced a natural 2.

It didn't seem like the usual AI style, but the flow and language was very strange indeed.

You're probably allowing the site to run JS. If you don't, you get a bunch of these stupid redactions.

Yes, that’s correct, I’m familiar — we used to have MovableType plugins for this! — but this is all offtopic for the post now that the title is corrected.

And that structure is made of people, and supported by people's decisions.

People are very happy to abdicate what personal responsibility they have if they can blame the system. (And then fail to help change the system.)

A system where shareholder value is effectively the only metric will align the people accordingly.

Are you suggesting that since "everyone does the right thing now" would have bad consequences, we shouldn't bother with "everyone does the right thing in a normally distributed way"? (Which is the less artificial scenario.)

"Nothing is simple, therefore it is impossible to act ethically."

Of course. But software developers are, on the whole, pretty damn well compensated. As a group we have a lot of freedom to make these sorts of financial decisions.

Yes, some members of the group don't have that freedom. But that doesn't excuse the ones who do.

Existing, probably less sketchy app: https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses (as linked in the other thread)

No need to hedge. It very simply is plagiarism.