Technology

So, over the last couple or years, Samsung has been updating the OS of my Galaxy Smartphone repeatedly. With each iteration more and more AI features have appeared as new buttons with ambiguous icons.

Using AI features on my phone requires opening a Samsung account so it cat track my token use. This requires providing personal information, and making up a password I will remember since the Samsung account app isn't compatible with password managers (except Samsung's proprietary manager, which I do not use). I also anticipate Samsung will want a credit card number to quietly charge me as I use compute.

I haven't made a Samsung account.

And so all these buttons with weird icons are now productivity potholes, since tapping any of them accidentally switches me to the create a Samsung account page, interrupting my workflow.

Like tyranny, enshitification is more about incompetence than malevolence.

"John Ternus will be great for Apple because he's an engineer"

A society that refuses to mix ethics with STEM: hold my beer..

Seriously, being an engineer or working on or in something doesn't automatically make you the best leadership choice automatically. Ethics are kind of an important thing America continues to gloss over at an alarming rate.

Apple is following in Proton's footsteps.

"The customer is always right" has become "The customer will like it" with screen controls in cars, IOT jammed into everything, subscriptions, AI forced down our throats...

Why not just add ChatGPT behind Siri?

Keep in mind Apple has a poorly documented and mostly unknown daemon called knowledgeconstructiond that cannot be turned off and solely exists to profile you based on accessing every Apple apps data - ical, messages, mail, photos etc, which is astoundingly personal info especially considering a lot of Apple users dump everything into stock apps, as the “strength” of Apple has typically been consistency of the platform

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph

The person who wrote that article vibecoded an app that allows you to visualize the data captured: https://github.com/8rank/iKnow

It is basically all the gross shit that ad networks do. What does Apple do with this data, that has been aggregated since macos 13? Officially it’s probably to “enhance the user experience” but at a minimum it probably changes how Apple delivers ads to you. do they sell it? Who knows

'I want more AI in my life' said noone

Oh yeah, time for some iSlop

If there is anything worse than getting into a pyramid scheme is getting late into a pyramid scheme

I had no idea this was even happening. Am i out of the loop?

Being slow on LLMs is the one good decision apple is making.

How about Apple makes FaceTime calls be halogram call like in Star Wars? Oh wait, nobody is asking for that. Just like nobody is asking for AI but here we are.

No shit. You say "AI" and investors scramble to throw money at you.

You say "AI will destroy the world" and they throw even more at you.

Everybody wants to own a piece of the apocalypse.

I chose the iPhone 15 specifically because it did not support Apple Intelligence.

What I want is options, not being screwed into paying to burn fossil fuels (for AI data centers), for O&G to say we "demand" fossil combustion.

Geezus how much more AI do we need? For the cost of it, we're not getting the great benefits we thought we were going to get. It's too environmentally harmful when it's run in concentrated places. There's also no reason to have these data centers. If PCs were invented today, we'd be renting PCs forever because this era isn't about innovation anymore. It's about trapping people in a rental world.

As long as it can be shut off, I'm okay with Apple shoving this into the devices.

I like the option called "off".

Put it everywhere, just like Microsoft

After updating my phone to the Apple Intelligence stuff I now have a 3+ second stall/freeze when asking Siri anything, including the fucking timer.

It also lags out hard typing into the address bar on Safari.

I’m so poised that they stopped updating security in the previous OS.

Tim Cook was a good transitional douchebag CEO to soften people up before the full Gavin Belson experience.

he not only he is pushing for a bad idea, he clearly missed the memo that Apple was mostly unaffected precisely because they had been slow to adopt AI

whoever would be in that position would do the same insane crap

That's a rather obvious and expected move in my eyes. After all, they had setup themselves for deep AI integration with their processor changes about a decade ago already. I was wondering for a while why they never really played their hand so far. Siri was not the epitome of that development.