Everyone: No more fucking AI!!!
Oligarchs: EAT IT! EAT MORE AI! EAT IT!!!
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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Everyone: No more fucking AI!!!
Oligarchs: EAT IT! EAT MORE AI! EAT IT!!!
It's crazy watching them shove LLM crap into every facet of their products just to placate idiot investors. Everyone knows it doesn't work and yet here we are.
Everyone knows
Idiot investors don't.
Sadly, it's not that simple.
They're not cramming AI into products to appease clueless investors. They're cramming into everything to see where it has traction because AI is very valuable... to them.
If a company can insert itself between you and your daily behaviour:
...then it can control that experience:
This isn't idiocy, it's very profitable and fucking evil.
Most People: Enough with the AI crap already.
Google: Let's bake it right into the browser. People will love it.
Some People: proceed to install Firefox
Move to LibreWolf, Firefox is also jamming AI crap in their browser
Brave (Leo) and DuckDuckGo (duck.ai) are also lost causes for this reason. Cue Napoleon Dynamite ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
At least with duckduckgo you can turn it off!
True. Brave can be debloated but it involves getting into the flags page and disabling stuff. PC is easy thanks to several projects on Github.
For the average user Firefox is just fine for now.
Me: discovering Mozilla's AI Sidebar
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(yes you can turn it off thankfully)
i saw a short video summing up the last Google I/O keynotes, they said AI in every single presentation at least 20 to 50 times. It's all they do these days
Microsoft Build conference this week is going the same way. If they didn't have copilot, there would be nothing to present.
~~People~~ the investor bots will love it.
Great, now I can ask the BS machine to summarize the BS created by another BS machine that spans 20 pages to say something that a human could have said in a paragraph, and did, but had their paragraph shoved down to the fifth page of the results by the other kind of BS machine we call bots and the other just plain BS we call ads./s
The dead internet looms large.
To think, a few years ago I was comfortable using windows and chrome browser. Simple child
Love to see U.S. Tech companies leading the charge in playing the highschooler game of saying an inappropriate word louder and louder in an unwelcome public context until somebody gets in trouble but the word is "A.I." instead of the usual reference to genitals.
You had me at shitty curved tabs
Not as bad as cramming it into notepad but further vindication in moving off them ages ago.