Ypu realize these companies can force growth via cramming it in to every channel they own, right? You realize growth on paper is not public endorsement, right?
Ypu realize these companies can force growth via cramming it in to every channel they own, right? You realize growth on paper is not public endorsement, right?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 hours ago
So why aren't Microsoft's numbers going up? Everyone's faking it except them?
MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Because they’re easier to ignore and disable than the biggest advertiser and search platform on the planet that gets their grubby hands in everything? MS doesn’t have nearly as much of an online presence, and that’s exactly where these “AI” are getting used.
On top of that, Google gets to feed search queries into their AI and generate results for most searches. Copilot does not get to arbitrarily answer every search someone types in to Windows.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Google Search being replaced by Gemini makes it easy for Google to have big AI numbers. Bing never got over its reputation of having bad result quality, and it’s only the default search engine on Windows PCs that don’t have Chrome or Firefox installed. My friend uses Windows and iOS and always sends me links to Gemini results, which normally are only slightly worse than “I’m feeling lucky.”
FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 hour ago
And yet beating out both of them by a very wide margin, with 61.30% of the AI search share, is ChatGPT. Which didn't have any established reputation or pre-installed userbase or anything at all that either Microsoft or Google started out with.
Your friend uses Gemini, presumably willingly. That's not "faked." This narrative of "nobody wants AI" is false, it's just popular among social media bubbles where people want it to be true.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 hours ago
They've got 70% of the desktop operating system share. Seems like every other thread about them around these parts is how they're "shoving AI down everyones' throats." I'm dubious that they're "easier to ignore."
MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Read my last paragraph, then. It’s not how much MS gets in everyones’ face. It’s the specific avenues in which these companies are exposed. Google is everywhere on a platform that people don’t have to install to try things out, or have it automatically execute without permission.
MS is not. Do you not remember the MASSIVE outcry when MS said they were turning on Copilot for everyone? They tried to shove it everyones’ faces ala google, but their avenues for forcing shit are plainly different.