What do you do with the pages of the book once you’ve scanned it?

The issue, I suspect, is payment processing and KYC. To operate at their scale requires not only the cooperation of various PCI partners (who are not obligated to cooperate) it also involves massive liability. A better question to ask is for whom would the investment of building a new Shopify be worth it. I suspect the answer is “not anyone who is using Shopify”.

Making a list of the tells you have will only serve to have them prompted against.

Why limit to language and SDK? Have the LLM write machine code.

Absolutely. LLMs are Magic! Go ahead

Correct

Who exactly are "they"?

Those in EU-office.

They say they have leaders but don’t need them

Well allbirds is an AI company now so I guess that makes sense

I suspect this would have an effect similar to early internet worms that caused significant strain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus)

Yes, and the IR light they emit when they use it can allegedly identify them: https://github.com/Noflock/Flock-IR-Detection

Can you use this to reflect 850nm light back at the cameras, possibly blinding them? Asking for a friend.

Reminds me a bit of Futurama S3 E7, “the day the earth stood stupid”