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Maybe the point is to trick people into thinking they're buying a version that they have the right to resell. The online version is a lesser product.

Dropbox did this to me with my actual data. I misunderstood it as a service where I could upload some data, uninstall the client, and expect the data to be there as long as the company still exists.

Advertisement or idea. In whatever ways they can make it subtle enough.

It's not like brand names and arbitrary ideas won't have ways they regularly show up in LLM output organically. So how would we ever know when they become ad placements?

It's very true that successive generations of technology innovate qualitatively worse hostilities that people accept in exchange for the surface convenience or novelty.

Regular TV has non-targeted commercials you can skip. Streaming has surveillance and unskippable ads.

AI can take it a step further and make promoted editorial content a seamless part of a conversation, without disclosure. It's the holy grail of advertising. To think they'll leave that money on the table is ridiculous.

Tools can also dull human capability. Calculators made it less important to be able to do math in your head. But how many people are pulling out their calculator at the grocery store or in other everyday situations where it would be helpful but not crucial? Now imagine this effect but for general thinking and creating.

There's plenty of "elitist gatekeeping" and excessive nitpicking of software in this community. But architecture isn't my area so I don't judge the line of where the criticism gets silly.

If modern AI is going to be used against us so horizontally we will absolutely not ignore it. If it widely accelerates something negative that existed before it, its effect is entirely relevant.

Right. Other than people trying to sell us things, who thinks we should be trending towards being more online instead of less?

And there's LibreWolf, for people who want to use Firefox without Mozilla.

I switched from Roku to Xbox for Plex because of how Roku has degraded, and not only did I get the primary benefit of being off Roku, but I found the Xbox Plex app has not been updated to the terrible new redesign so it was a double win.

Exactly. If LLM coding had come first we'd build statues of whoever invented deterministic programming.

> Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,”

Well they were true to their word about demonstrating a new and increasingly relevant definition of "excellence."

They'd stop talking, there would be a pause, and in that brief moment I was bracing myself for the lame shift into advertiser voice. Anticipating it was putting me on edge and when I realized that I knew there was no enjoyment in it left for me.

Sadly, there's more evil and more laziness/incompetence in the world that's being accelerated by AI than there is good.

I became a baseball fan when I was nine years old and that lasted for thirty years. About 4 years ago I stopped watching the games because I couldn't stand the announcers reading ads during the inning, sometimes between pitches.

I don't mind a 3-5 minute commercial break I can mute and ignore or skip with a DVR buffer. Traditional TV commercial breaks are the most benign. But I can't listen to 5-10 second micro-ads that can come at any time. The fandom has left my body.

Being able to think of a hypothetical motivation is not evidence that an action is due to that motivation or that the action is necessarily even a bad idea. There's a lot of smart people here, lazy and specious arguments likely don't go far.

The nature of the invention is for people to relieve themselves of the burden of having to use their minds. And while there will be exceptions, (including, I'm sure you: the person reading this comment,) the vast majority of people are hungry to use AI in that spirit of being able to be lazy.

Yeah, it's like declaring self driving safe because people are told to remain alert with their hands on the wheel, ready to take over in an instant. It's a charade.

You have no obligation to agree with them, but after all this time I don't know how someone on either side could be ignorant of what the other side's main arguments are.

A calculator does replace our ability to do math in a certain sense.

At the grocery store there's countless (no pun) opportunities to do math in the sense of comparing prices and calculating unit costs etc, but most people can't do that math easily in their head because the calculator has made that skill less important.

But people also don't pull out the calculator repeatedly to do this in the grocery store, so the math just doesn't get done.

"Why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box???"

I retired due to not only AI, but other reasons this industry has become something I don't like.

I'm fortunate with regards to the timing and being able to do it, but if I could have a job like the one I had ten years ago I'd still be working.

It's a bummer that the rest of us have no choice but to live in the world created by the tyranny of the docile.

What a community of temporarily embarrassed unicorns we have here.

Has a company ever had a greater fiduciary incentive not to finish and release their game?

The point is that the long-ongoing effort to weaken regulation leads to events like this as predicted, and further steps in that direction are powerfully incompetent.

We used to ridicule "works on my machine" thinking but now we're pivoting the whole field into essentially that, shipping what "sticks" like you said.

We should call this obsession "longest Covid". Certain people will be on this until they die.

Covid already started to create a situation where people get indignant if you expect them to physically show up to places. Like we're in The Naked Sun. We're probably headed towards people feeling the same sort of entitled to respond to you in the medium of least effort, that is, copy/pasting from AI.

"Global warming" was bad branding because stupid/dishonest people smugly use any instance of unusual cold weather as an argument against it.