Games and hardware have been passing the ball back and forth and I think games have the ball right now. It’s only a matter of time until we need more power again so why slow down? Besides, the people who don’t want realism already benefit from it by having cheaper and more efficient parts.

That’s true but those bot networks were easy to find with reverse search. There were different types of bots and the clever ones went under the radar easily.

I used to call out bots sometimes about 2-3 years ago and I can tell you it already was like this. The only difference is the addition of AI, but early bot networks just used Google translate back and forth to copy entire old posts without being noticed.

That’s total, not per trip. They can still add up all of your trips if they have the evidence.

I thought long and hard about this and I don’t see any downsides.

That person is wrong here, but I think they were thinking about other scenes. There’s a few of them on youtube if you search Tom and Jerry stereotypes.

Youtube video “If Google Was A Guy”. I commented at the same time as the person above, nice.