Isn’t Firefox generally quite good at letting you turn off features you don’t want?
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TheBaldness@beehaw.org 5 months ago
What an absolute shitshow this is going to be. If I want a digital assistant, I’ll get one. Keeping concerns separate is what has always worked. This reads like Elon wanting X to be the “everything app”. That ship has already sailed. The web is the everything app. Back when the web was new, you had AOL and Yahoo wanting to be the “gateway” to everything. How did that work out? My gateway to everything is my bookmarks folder. I don’t want AI in anything I use locally unless I explicitly enable it and ask for assistance. IMHO, this is the reason so many digital assistants have failed (especially Microsoft’s); because they tried to anticipate your needs rather than STFU and stay out of the way.
I’m old.
/rant
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 5 months ago
That’s not my problem personally. It’s that they’re wasting time on stuff like this when they could be spending it on enhancing their browser in other ways
mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 5 months ago
Something something “Looking Glass”
Azzk1kr@feddit.nl 5 months ago
My feeling is that AI is the new solution looking for too many problems to solve. I had the same feeling with microservices, big data, block chain, NoSQL databases and all those other hype driven development things. Different products and solutions exist to solve their respective problems. I notice that AI (notably since ChatGPT and related) are pushed in all directions.
TheBaldness@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I’m absolutely with you. Having run face-first into MongoDB more than once, I finally learned not to trust the hype around these things.
averyminya@beehaw.org 5 months ago
How else would we know what niche to exploit with it other than brute forcing it into everything!
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Could we have an AI do the brute forcing?.. /s
beefcat@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Gartner hype cycles strike again.