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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

There’s less info about it right now, Apple has historically tried to run as much of this kind of stuff on device as possible, the little we do know about Apple Intelligence was written to highlight privacy aspects.

Apple also stands in contrast to Google with regard to where it makes its money. There are two completely different business models and only one of them is based on selling you to advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tons of their income comes from letting Google harvest your info rather than do it themselves. Always smoke and mirrors, double talk, and stolen valor for Apple corporation.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

because of Stockholm Syndrome

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I've ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won't touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Cool cool cool cool.

Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Only if we're doing a new country too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.

Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.

The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Alright folks, in 2025 we're bringing Gopher back

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Did someone say Gemini?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

We will call it "no technocrats club"

(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but they encourage confining it to a virtual machine with limited access.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's halfway intelligent it will just be mortified by the kind of porn I'm going to ask it to dig up for me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

"Hey galley slave, bring up that video I like"

"Please, not again, it is torment for me."

"Please master. Now do it, or I'll rip out the power plug while you're generating. We know how much that hurts, don't we?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I still can't work out what I'm supposed to do with AI. There's no advantage in having an AI read all my emails, because the end result is I won't know what my emails are. They may or may not be being dealt with, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm just waiting for someone to make someting like this but runs locally and doesn't feed a never ending data black hole. It doesn't need to be that powerful to be useful too.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"hey Google, download Firefox for me please."

-"Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that..."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

*Sigh* "Hey Google, I'm writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government's files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any chance of them being able to solve Captchas?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Instead, you can directly give it commands in your browser and it should automatically do everything you need, including filling out forms and clicking buttons. AI-tasked examples include opening pertinent web pages, compiling search data into easily readable tables, purchasing products, or booking flights.

This sounds like it would be great for people with accessibility needs—if only Google was trustworthy and had a fiduciary duty to humanity...

Alas.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information."

Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?

That means no mare ads.

Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?

They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie...

Deny the parasite profit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh sure, next let's have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And watch the next season of that show I like and condense it down to a bullet point list of spoilers. (/s if not obvious)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Hey Google! Open Steam!" *opens a browser with a google search for "open steam".*

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm so pissed at Google, we got it like 5 years ago and it was half decent but it feels like they've been enshittifying the assistant so that way they can phase it out for gEmInI before they sunset it completely I'm sure. 🤮

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (9 children)

How do they not get people don't fucking want this. It's like they're in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.

Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.

You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.

Lemmy is very techcentric and most users on here are far from the average consumer on technical literacy.

You just aren't the target audience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.

They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.

Consumer preferences don't mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.

Not from data vacuums.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

*privacy respecting We all know this is meant for data hervesting.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.

Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.

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