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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Google, Facebook, etc. have been burning money to gain market share and "good will" from users knowing that when the money faucet stopped or if they found a way to make money, they'd abuse their market share and squeeze their users for profit.

Once interest rates increased and the VC infinite money glitch went away (borrow at low interest rates, gamble on companies, repeat), the masks came off and the screws started turning, hard. Anything they can do to monetize anyone else involved, they're trying.

The same story has been happening with AI but without the infinite money glitch - just investors desperate for a good bet getting hyped to hell and back. They need adoption and they need business to become dependent on their product. Each of these companies are basically billions in the hole on AI.

Users, especially technical users, should know that not only is the product failing to live up to the hype but that embracing AI is basically turning the other cheek for these companies to have their way with your wallet even faster and more aggressively than they already are with everything else they've given away.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

I don't even want Windows 11 specifically because of AI. It's intrusive, unnecessary, and the average person has no use for it. The only time I have used AI for anything productive was when I needed to ask some very obscure questions for Linux since I'm trying to get rid of Windows entirely.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Most features are relabelled years old shit...google on tap is now gemini screen search.

Things like chatbots have gotten better but bleh, I dont want to give up my privacy for this shit

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Fuck the ai os wave. Do not force that shit into my life. I'm fine with using ai, but ai is not gonna stare over my shoulder. I decide when I use it. Never going back from Linux. Still stuck with a samsung phone but we'll see

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[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

they are useless... Copilot is not worth even $50 of an update

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh hey, I got one of those buttons on my new laptop that literally never booted into Windows. Pressing it Linux says it's "Meta + CTRL" (I think), which is pretty useful. Got it for the good price/performance/build-quality ratio.

Didn't yet find a good use for that fancy NPU, the XDNA driver just arrived a month ago or so. Perhaps for use with Upscayl or something actually useful.

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