It’s the Wild West days of AI, just like the internet in the 90s. Do what you can with it now, because it’ll eventually turn into a marketing platform. You’ll get a handy free AI model that occasionally tries to convince you to buy stuff. The paid premium models will start doing it too.
The last 20 years has basically been entirely a troubling trend in tech.
It’s crazy Google will lose its search dominance and all its money in my lifetime. Android will probably be the only thing left when I die.
Not even sure about that though. There are many ideas already to “revolutionize” the OS market where your device basically becomes a sole wrapper for AI, ditching the concept of apps etc. I assume it would center around some agentic bullshit or so.
Millions of businesses are so innovative they are choosing the same basket to put all their eggs in.
Capitalism sure is fun. Simply side economics plus massive deregulation is sure to provide humanity with it’s salvation.
Remember that you, the reader, don’t have to take part in this. If you don’t like it, don’t use it - tell your friends and family not to use it, and why.
The only way companies stop this trend is if they see it’s a losing bet.
Oh they’ll force you to use it. It will be shoved into every service you use, also ones you need to use. You will not be able to do your work, access government services, or live your life without going through them.
Late stage capitalism has killed the free market a while ago.
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.
The Sunk Cost fallacy is strong
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.
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?
Luckily, 90% of what Google goes all in on fails. I remember Stadia and Google Glass.
In that case, we should encourage google to go all-in on climate change, racism, and war; they should back the conservative party as well. Then 90% of those will fail.
I remember some people very vehemently telling me that I was dumb to be skeptical of Stadia, that it really was going to just take over the industry…
I still don’t understand how Stadia got out the door the way it did. It was the exact same business model Onlive tried back in the day. And it predictably failed the exact same way.
From what I call, the advocates kept saying:
- OnLive was just too soon, the internet needed to be better
- Google had just so much more resources at their disposal they could make it happen
Of course, no one ever explained why I would want to pay full price for a game and also have to pay a monthly fee to access it once purchased, which was the most mind boggling facet of Google’s concept to me, even more boggling than trying to make games render server side when the cheapest end user device can just locally render PS3, maybe PS4 level graphics nowadays.
from wp:Don’t be evil to Too Big To Care.
Guess my next phone is coming from Oneplus or Fairphone.
bUt AnDrOiD!!!
…can be chained to its desk and limited, I agree.
Since when does Oneplus support Calyx or Grapheme?
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.
Apple still lets you disable their AI which I’m grateful for.
DuckDuckGo has made A.I. results optional, which is a good move.
Companies that are making it fixed can go swimming in lava for all I care (looking at you Google).
Yes, THANK YOU!!!
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.
Read Ed Zitron’s work on google search. It’s dying because they killed it.
They certainly didn’t help it by weighing it down with more and more ads.
I think they did more - I vaguely remember them admitting they messed up the search result on purpose so the user will run more queries and will see even more ads.
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
