If this bothers you, stop using the products.

ChatGPT is quite good and it's not in my face at all, it's just in a bookmark I access when I need it.

Copilot is hot garbage, and it's plastered all over Windows, Edge, and Office.

I haven't tried the Samsung AI, but it won't let me forget it's there.

OP absolutely has a point. The more in your face the AI is, the more garbage it is.

Fuck you, Michael. You stole my lunch out the fridge.

You know, Im going to get downvoted to fuck for this... but. The same was said about LGBT stuff being pushed into every tv show and movie. Every DEI announcement by whatever company. There was a point that I was walking through Tesco, and over the loud speaker I was being reminded that "Tesco is supportive of Trans people". Like thats something that anyone cares about while shopping for frozen chips.

Its funny that we recognise the corporate bullshit when its AI, or NFTs or the Metaverse, or whatever else corporations have tried to push over the years. But when it was LGBT related, all of sudden we created a whole culture war around it. Mean while, companies like Adidas are selling rainbow shit to morons every pride month while at the same time shovelling large amounts of money in to things like the World Cup in Qatar that still has the death penalty on the table for being gay...

The virtue signal went so fucking hard. And that caused the virtue signal against it to go just as hard. Meanwhile, all the LGBT people are looking around at everyone during pride month and trying to not laugh at all the straight people doing this:

I just find it curious that we can see it with AI, but when its LGBT thats being pushed, all of sudden, its fine. Its totally fine, to use LGBT people like product to market and profit from.

LLMs are fucking useful, but there's not yet a good business model. You can switch to any system at any time, so everyone is trying to forcefeed you their own version of it ro get you hooked. But in the end they're just annoying the hell out of users.

This is how I feel, especially with companies adding "AI Use" to their performance reviews. If employees found it helpful, they'd use it. Or did you hire complete morons?

I've built several AI tools for my work which do increase productivity. They lean in to what AI is actually good at and improve the speed of getting information, like using AI embeddings to build a quick semantic search, and building MCP tools for agents to look up information in our systems quickly. I've built some AI based tools to automate very expensive tasks that require a ton of manual data curation and review, and it works at the same level as our staff doing it, and it runs in 20 minutes, that's a win.

People actually do use these tools because they save a significant amount of time with very little cost, and everyone gets to do the things they're actually good at.

Now I'm being asked to spearhead building out customer facing AI efforts. I knew this day would come, but yeah the board and investors want it. They really want to be able to tell investors and clients that we're an AI forward company.

I've been planning for this and researching/studying, and all the internal tools I've built have been test runs. I'm not going to force AI on users, but I am going to build tools and systems for the ones who do use AI.

Kinda. We want AI like on Star Trek, but to get there we gotta go through these growing pains. The people who push AI in your face want it to get better — either because they want the altruistic Star Trek AI or because they want it to be profitable. I admit, most are the latter, but a few are the former.