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timkenhan@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It always makes me wonder: what exactly do they have to gain pushing AI to everything? Like, what’s the angle here?

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Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I personally see two major factors :

it’s yet another way to collect data for monetization (selling to governments and advertisers).

it’s a symptom of market culture : it exists not to serve the user, but to be a product to sell to the user. In that light, it behaves and evolves exactly as any other thingy which tries to reinvent itself year after year, to keep customers interested, regardless of its intrinsic value as an operating system.

but that’s just me, I can’t claim to understand the inner workings of Microsoft
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- timkenhan@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Makes sense, especially with all the tech bros racing to enshittify the world.
  
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- IceFoxX@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It collects data that is sufficient for a personal profile. MS is already arbitrarily blocking accounts in Europe. Now think of Trump. The proliferation of flock cameras and cameras in general. Post something wrong once and you’re gone. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlmtdjrOxc
  
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markz@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
AI is obviously the next big thing. If your product isn’t full AI right now, you’ll miss out.

So basically I’m convinced the reason everyone’s chasing AI is all just greed and fomo. People at the top of the ladder seem generally more detached from reality.

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Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If your program/OS has to constantly phone home to operate, you can’t easily distinguish the traffic related to it’s operation from the traffic snooping all your data. Extra points if you willingly give the AI access or information.

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cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Three thongs

They own openai, which is a ponzi scheme.

They are spying on you. Obviously. This is a better excuse to do more of that more openly.

This creates a corporate controlled abstraction layer between you and everything you do, puts more decision control and discernment in the corporation’s hands. When Amazon tried to move to voice based ordering, it was on this same logic; that they would choose the product for ypu based on what’s best for them.
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