Technology

The other day I asked my phone for a measurement conversion while cooking only to be greeted by the new Gemini nonsense. Don't touch my shit!

Then I was driving and tried to play a specific song, but the Assistant couldn't get further than dumping me into YouTube Music and hiding my navigation.

So anyways, I just uninstalled Assistant and after failing to find something else I came to Lemmy and saw this.

The Sunk Cost fallacy is strong

it's part of a welcoming trend of who gives a fuck

the less relevant megacorps are the better, i hope they all go all in on fake AI and lose everything whilst choking

To be fair I think it is happening to Google as much as it is to everyone else, we are running down a hill and are going too fast to stop.

First of all no thanks and second... How do I totally opt out because we must assume those cretins opted us all in. I've opted out one one account. Does that work for everything?

To be fair, they kind of have to pivot from search at this point. More and more people are using alternative ways to find information. That cash cow is dying.

from wp:Don't be evil to Too Big To Care.

What tech company isnt going "all in" on AI? We just had Google I/O and AI was literally the only thing they talked about.

Tech companies don't really give a damn what customers want anymore. They have decided this is the path of the future because it gives them the most control of your data, your purchasing habits and your online behavior. Since they control the back end, the software, the tech stack, the hardware, all of it, they just decided this is how it shall be. And frankly, there's nothing you can do to resist it, aside from just eschewing using a phone at all. and divorcing yourself from all modern technology, which isn't really reasonable for most people. That or legislation, but LOL United States.

Gemini.

The twins.

Castor and Pollux.

They were tricked by their cousins and started the whole Trojan War.