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Hahahaha suck it, Microslop. I look forward to your Chapter 11 filing.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

adding new "features"

look inside

enshittification

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Did they try making it good?

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

That's the beauty of it (from their viewpoint), they don't have to make it good, just unavoidable.

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[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

At this rate I will have to do like Terry Davis and make my OWN minimalistic OS to escape this AI plague.

[–] Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it's always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

That shit should set off alarm bells of all regulators… but we elect people who don’t give a fuck so…

[–] dracs@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago
[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Duh. I wouldn't have called it "addiction", but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn't take away classical search.

I thought that was obvious from the start.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

They should make slop vapes.

Legitimately most modern games or all of social media.

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... how? They can't just say it and expect it to happen. People have to want to use it. How, in the absolute shit sauce, could you possibly be addicted to an AI? What even is the goal?

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only Scout believed in himself.

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[–] Qzr@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At least they're honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.

Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We're still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.

As a skeptic, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.

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[–] LightYagami@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

Very surprising

Uhh yeah thats the long term profit concept of LLMs, force them onto people for free until they cant live without them, then jack up the price. Its been pretty obvious...

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