What he wrote doesn’t seem ambiguous on this at all. But we’ll see.
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Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 19 hours agoAnd also ….. will the kill switch turn off the AI entirely … or partially? Since the AI system is baked in, will elements of it still operate in the background even if you turn off the switch?
ripcord@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
fodor@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
So you agree that it will be baked in and impossible to actually turn off. Yep.
Otherwise, they would have made it an extension, right? If it’s optional, it needs to actually be optional … that’s what am extension is. That’s the whole point of them.
Serinus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You can not push the button that says AI.
You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.
That’s opt-in enough.
If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.
And therein lies the rub. The question is whether or not people trust that it won’t be doing that regardless of whether or not you hit the kill switch.
ripcord@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No
mirshafie@europe.pub 18 hours ago
Not sure what you mean by “will it operate in the background”? The current (and planned) features collect no data. The “operate” when you use them. Disabling them will remove them from the UI.
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 17 hours ago
lol …. so they won’t change how they function … just remove them from sight
out of sight, out of mind, right?
Whenever I trust big corporations … or even big organizations with a lot of power in their hands … it’s never usually good for common people like me and you.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
No, they won’t be used at all, and will be hidden from view, if turned off.