Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech

• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  True, in a broad sense. I am speaking moreso to enshittification and the degradation of both experience and control.

  If this was just “now everything has Siri, it’s private and it works 100x better than before” it would be amazing. That would be like cars vs horses. A change, but a perceived value and advantage.

  But it’s not. Not right now anyways. Right now it’s like replacing a car with a pod that runs on direct wind. If there is any wind over say, 3mph it works, and steers 95% as well as existing cars. But 5% of the time it’s uncontrollable and the steering or brakes won’t respond. And when there is no wind over 3mph it just doesn’t work.

  In this hypothetical, the product is a clear innovation, offers potential benefits long term in terms of emissions and fuel, but it doesn’t do the core task well, and sometimes it just fucks it up.

  The television, cars, social media, all fulfilled a very real niche. But nearly everyone using AI, even those using it as a tool for coding (arguably its best use case) often don’t want to use it in search or in many of these other “forced” applications because of how unreliable it is. Hence why companies have tried (and failed at great expense) to replace their customer service teams with LLMs.

  This push is much more top down.

  Now drink your New Coke and Crystal Pepsi.

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  • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the beginning though many I’ve ruins didn’t fill much of a purpose. When TV was invented maybe a handful of programs were available. People still had more use for radio. Slowly it became what it is today.

    I get it though. The middle phase sucks because everybody is money hungry. Eventually things will fall into place.

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