| ▲ | smcl 6 hours ago |
| Another signal that prominent mentions of "AI" in your marketing sends is "this product is going to shoe-horn AI into this somehow". Plenty of products that people use every day at home or in work - Google search, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Jira, and more - have had some kind of AI-first redesign. In each case some AI functionality has been placed prominently either somewhere that you accidentally press it or in place of something that previously worked. Even my iPhone brings up this brightly coloured keyboard expecting me to do something with AI, and I don't actually know what causes it. So I think it's much simpler than solidarity with creators, artists or even workers more generally. It's that "AI" as a brand stinks, people are connecting it with annoying, low quality experiences and shitty low-effort art. |
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| ▲ | Angostura 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think AI has also become synonymous with slapdash, low effort, probably steals my data |
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| ▲ | doom2 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | And why shouldn't it? There are so many prominent examples of badly implemented AI solutions. It's like how China is associated with cheap copycat products even though they are perfectly capable (and do!) produce many well made, quality things. | |
| ▲ | FeteCommuniste 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Precisely. "We're doing this with AI" reads as "we don't care enough about this to pay a person to do it." |
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| ▲ | stvltvs 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And frustrating automated voice systems, support chat bots that go in circles, etc. |
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| ▲ | dmd 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | >> It looks like this isn't something I can help you with. Would you like to be connected to a human who can help? > Sure! >> Ok, I'm connecting you to a human now. [5 minutes later] > Hello? >> Hi! What can I help you with? > Are you a human? >> No, I'm an AI agent programmed to help you with anything you need. What can I do for you? > You said you were going to connect me to a human. >> That isn't something I can do. What can I help you with? Turns out "connecting to a human" is something it knows about in its training data so it'll hallucinate doing so. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | At least your example IDs itself as an AI agent. The ones I've come across hide it but it becomes obvious with responses like "I don't have access to that information" or something a human would never say. I had a dealership give me one of those, so I hung up on it and called a different dealership where I was connected to an actual human. Guess which one got my business... |
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| ▲ | dv_dt 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So AI is resurrecting the microsoft clippy problem | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Clippy was just ahead of its time. Sadly for the bots of now, they are only slightly better than Clippy |
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| ▲ | bigtex 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Example #1, Co-pilot in EVERY corner of Microsoft's software. |
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| ▲ | fluoridation 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >In each case some AI functionality has been placed prominently either somewhere that you accidentally press it or in place of something that previously worked. Just the other day I was trying to fix someone's laptop and reflexively pressed (what I thought was) the context menu key, only to find no context menu opened, and instead a Copilot window right in the middle of the screen. |
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| ▲ | queenkjuul 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Plenty of products that people use every day at home or in work - Google search, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Jira, and more Most egregiously: VSCode. No, i absolutely never in my life will want Copilot to summarize anything for me and yet guess what button appeared in the UI and i accidentally clicked on last night.... |
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| ▲ | nativeit 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | VSCodium was better on this front last time I tried it, and since Microsoft seems intent on allowing the Extensions to be a wildly insecure free-for-all, I am seeing fewer and fewer reasons to stick with the official version. |
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| ▲ | MyHonestOpinon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My washing machine also has this AI icon. Not a big deal but it makes me roll my eyes everytime I see it. |
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| ▲ | gilleain 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That's actually a feature that washing machines have had for a while - "generative washing" - it is where the extra odd socks come from. | | |
| ▲ | jraph 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > extra odd socks I have the opposite issue, can generative washing recover the lost odd socks somehow? | | |
| ▲ | JesseTG 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Common misconception, the socks you think you're losing are being found by other people's washers. | |
| ▲ | rbonvall 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Socks are not getting lost; they are getting compacted to keep the context window small. |
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| ▲ | Angostura 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My LG one has had smomething like that - a coupkle of years old. Seems quite nifty though - it tumbles the load dry for a while and alledgely uses the patterm of weight shift to determine what kind of load it is - the materials etc - and adjusts the wash accordingly |
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| ▲ | jordanb 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm pissed off that Android took over the power button to activate their AI agent bullshit. |
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| ▲ | stvltvs 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Search your settings for Power Button, Side Button, or whatever. You should be able to change the setting for a long press. | |
| ▲ | DANmode 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Google, not Android. I assure you, the Android Open Source Project made no such change. | | |
| ▲ | WorldMaker 16 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Feeling rather flippant, but what's the difference in practice? Can you point to an AOSP "brand" phone on a store shelf that is "de-Googled" out of the box? What is AOSP really for other than "open source washing" Google's ecosystem? Is it ever making standards that Google has to follow/comply with or is it always just the tail being wagged by the dog to make it look like the dog is happy about open source (but still isn't majority open source)? | | |
| ▲ | DANmode 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | LineageOS, GrapheneOS et al base themselves upon this upstream project. A good one to familiarize yourself with, and support. |
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| ▲ | nathan_compton 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've recently switched to grapheneos. I have a high tolerance for shit not working, but its been fine. |
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| ▲ | dominotw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| i blame microslop for poisoning public perception with copilot. god that was so awful. |
