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jowea 13 hours ago

Big Tech can jam X everywhere and not get actual adoption though, it's not magic. They can nudge people but can't force them to use it. And yes a lot of AI jammed everywhere is getting the Clippy reaction.

wavemode 10 hours ago | parent [-]

The thing a lot of people haven't yet realized is: all those AI features jammed into your consumer products, aren't for you. They're for investors.

We saw the same thing with blockchain. We started seeing the most ridiculous attempts to integrate blockchain, by companies where it didn't even make any sense. But it was all because doing so excited investors and boosted stock prices and valuations, not because consumers wanted it.