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Network (1976). Quite possibly the best movie ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc

No, putting money in your own bank account is not like paying rent because you still own the money and can still spend in on other things. Paying rent to a landlord, or dues into a maintenance account, removes the money from your ownership and prevents you from spending it on other things.

Reducing the length of shifts from 8 hours to 6 hours shouldn't seriously affect most people, and if it did they have two more hours of off-duty time to compensate.

The part that makes it similar to a landlord is the necessity for someone to actually be responsible for the building as a whole. "Dues" is just "rent" by another name.

The most gut-wrenching example, of course, is Captain Jellico, who arbitrarily changes everything, criticizes the way Troi dresses, won’t let Riker do his job – and regards it as a foregone conclusion that Picard is dead.

Jellico gets such a bad rap! His changes aren't arbitrary, they're intended to make the Enterprise ready for combat and he has only days to do it. Troi remained in uniform because it was a good idea. And Riker is just petulant and irresponsible; the scene where Jellico asks him to pilot the shuttle does NOT reflect well on Riker at all, and his constant challenges to Jellico's authority are unbecoming an officer.

Jellico doesn't regard Picard's death as a foregone conclusion (the issue was his captivity, not his death.) Instead, he correctly prioritizes the mission over recovering one man--something Riker would not have done, and thus justifying Starfleet's decision to put Jellico in command.

First off all, yes they can for all practical purposes. Or, alternately, neither can humans. So the point is academic. There is little difference between the end result from an AI and a human taken at random.

Not even the AI companies' marketing departments go that far.

That sounds an awful lot like a landlord. And if no rent is being collected, where is the money for the bank account coming from?

How many dead bodies I've discovered, and how many doors I've had to break down.

So nobody owns the building?

No. Every parameter in the LLM, not just the prompt, is or was a new human idea at some point.

Physician, heal thyself, then.