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Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you?

26•lucideng•3h ago
What won't they force AI into? Everywhere I look they have hastily shoehorned AI into something. The power button on a Galaxy S24 is now the Gemini button. Every search engine has 'AI Suggestions'. Even Logitech ships AI tools with its 'Logi Options+', I just wanted to reconfigure my buttons FFS. I didn't ask for this 'Powered by ____ AI' future, shame on you if you did.

Anyone else get the feeling that AI is a net loss for humanity? Search already made us lazy, now we don't even have to think about the answer, just regurgitate what the AI said. Don't even read your email, just have AI summarize what an AI probably wrote.

Then there's a strange dismissal of AI's failures. You can blame the AI for a failure, but if you were to arrive at the same conclusion/result, it would be your fault. It's become some sort of ownership offloading. Easier to blame the machine than take responsibility?

Where are the environmentalists? AI uses 10x the energy (and thus 10x carbon emissions) as search. That doesn't include the resources and energy to make the hardware and train the models in the first place. I can't think of any device or tool where people would tolerate a 10x increase in energy usage to complete the same task. People don't care what happens in the Datacenter until its next door to them causing problems.

I find it very useful for generating boilerplate code, unit tests, etc. It's a great tool for doing certain work. I don't need or want it shoved into everything because every Product Manager and Sales team seems to think it's a good idea to drive 'growth factors' or some other BS.

Comments

chrisjj•3h ago
> What won't they force AI into?

Toasters?

Oh wait. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/10/intelligent-...

milliams•2h ago
We've seen where that ends up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
blinkbat•3h ago
yes, I would assume 90% of people who aren't easily swayed by hype are tired of it being shoehorned everywhere, and simultaneously none of us can do anything about it because investors are heart-eyed over it.
jmclnx•3h ago
Yes, very much so, to the point were I may move to a burner phone.
canistr•3h ago
It's odd that you cite Gemini on the S24 as the straw that broke the camel's back when Bixby (and its dedicated button) has been around since 2017.
msgodel•3h ago
I think it's useful but there's all this peripheral administrative/training stuff my current employer is forcing us through that's pretty annoying.
aspir•3h ago
Optimistically, only 5% of the things that AI is bolted on to today will provide any value over time (which is better than the 0% rate for Blockchain a few years ago). My exhaustion comes from having to constantly sift through the fluff to find the promising aspects.
rgreekguy•3h ago
My previous company was full on the AI train, too. Super tiring. But fun having access to Gemini. It's so bad half of the time...

They were so proud to announce in ~February that they will sum up our comments on the internal survey using Copilot (probably)!

sierra1011•2h ago
I'm so tired of opening every program or app I have to use for work and being met by a popup or notification that I can, should I wish, do something with AI. I can't even change focus of a Meet window without it popping up suggesting Gemini, and I can see that notification countless times in a day. Can't turn it off, I'm not an Org Admin.

I just want to not have it shoved in my face. It's exhausting.

WarOnPrivacy•2h ago
I just finished a call with a friend who is a power user of Gemini, to great benefit. I delivered a PC with tensor cores for when he wants to do more locally. AI is a critically helpful and growing presence in his career.

Conversely, I spent an hour one day trying to prevent Gmail from puking text onto every new email I begin. It turned out to be a Chrome feature and scrapping Chrome is the only way to stop it. Past that is more time spent working out how to disable Gemini and remove it's elements, so it's unwanted presence isn't triggered into being a problem.

Every month I have to review the list of registry edits I use to keep copilot's unwanted advances out of my users' workspace. Notably, there isn't one for Win11 notepad and MS CP has to be disabled manually thru the UI.

Of these two preferences, major tech respects just one. The other one is continually acted on, leveraged and intruded upon - with tech corps showing no more understanding of consent than Harvey Weinstein did. If AI is on the table, what we want is just an obstacle for UI devs to overcome.

cadamsdotcom•32m ago
AI buttons are a fad, they’ll be gone soon. Just like Clippy (an assistant for Microsoft Word in the 90s). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_uCbKoG5A&pp=ygUGQ2xpcHB5

The real uses of AI will be far more subtle.

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