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Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I am genuinely curious, this whole thing is most likely an effort to sell more TVs, but does that actually work? Is there a significant segment of customers which buys TVs based on whether or not it has a (link to a) chatbot in it? Or did some exec just decide “our products need to have AI now” with 0 research done.

I would really like to see data on this.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Or did MS pay them to include it, knowing they could hoover up a lot of data, perhaps even with a clause in the contract to also share that data with LG?

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obolstitelkisok@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They do it because those TVs are selling.

What many people seem to misunderstand today dramatically is that no sane major manufacturer will push a genuinely risky feature. On the contrary, if something like this makes it into a product, it’s because there is an expectation of immediate or medium-term profit, backed by extensive market research. Companies aren’t stupid; they are highly optimised for this kind of decision-making. And I would honestly be glad to be proven wrong.

In other words, if the feature is there, it means that people either like it or simply don’t care enough to make it into a problem.

And here’s the hot take: don’t blame the manufacturer, blame the people. Collectively consumers have shown almost no resistance to the ongoing enshitification of the last decade.

I’m glad you’re opposed to it, and many people here are too, but in the bigger picture it is just a drop in the ocean, unfortunately.

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- badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That hot take ignores human psychology’s known weaknesses.
  
  Blaming the public for falling victim to psychological manipulation that has being perfected for generations is like blaming a stabbing victim for bleeding so much.
  
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- PokerChips@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I didn’t believe this if true. Microsoft is known for trotting out garbage that nobody wants. Sometimes they back off. Sometimes they best is down until we fall in line.
  
  I suspect an assortment of realities that include individual partnerships on the boards, bribes, kickbacks, and more blitz style manipulation to “ensure” LG that people want this, and of course threre is also the realization that they will make bank before people realize they’re getting bamboozled.
  
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