Fuck AI

I am so happy in my Arch Linux, no AI, no "this pc", almost everything under my control. Windows used to be great until the enshitification started to spread like plague everywhere. I still have a decades old bank intel laptop (19+ years old, literally acquired from a bank and they were about to throw it and many others away but I managed to take one with me, it is huge and makes my chest look small) with a working windows 7 I sometimes use to relieve nostalgia, not going to change anything on it plus it became a relic.

The whole demo about this was so stupid. The user said "the text on this website is to small, I cannot read it", and the ai points out how to click through the windows system setting to find the UI scale option which was at 150%. Then it suggest to set it to the current setting of 150% because there was a label "recommended" on it.

It's a fail on so many levels. Why could it not just set it without telling the user to "click here" through 5 different dialogs and windows? Why set it to the same setting it already has? Why not set the browsers scale if the user said "this website is to small"?

They just want to stuff ai into everything without knowing what problem they need to solve.

Every other update in ANYTHING has this shit shoveled at us. My god it's getting so annoying. I had to look up how to get my search bar to stop freaking asking me to ask Google AI about my search! Every goddamn search!

“Profoundly impressive”?

I find nothing profound about it at all. It’s a devastating resource hog, it’s wrong a lot of the time, it’s manipulated by its owners to deliver the messages they want or avoid inconveniencing them, it lends itself to the further stupidification of humans who are too lazy to fact check(that’s almost everyone), it’s used to make video lies in the face of objective truth and sexually humiliate women.

Honestly, fuck AI.

Why it couldn’t be strictly deployed as a backup to human skill such as looking for cancer, trying to formulate better drugs, etc. instead of the invasive garbage it is being used to get rid of humans.

When OpenAI crashes, Microsoft just like gets it. They literally don't care if there is a bubble, in fact they are at least partially incentivised to create the bubble and then let it burst.

Theres no downside for MS

Shit human pushing shit tech that makes people stupider, encourages them to kill themselves, worships fascism, and destroys the planet. Yeah, wow, go figure.

It's not that people are unimpressed, it's that the product you're shipping is:

1. Not what people want
2. Not what you think it is, or at least not what you sell it as
3. Is violating people's privacy and intellectual property rights
4. Is just plain not useful.

It's fucking cool that computers can talk now. Sadly, they are not super smart.

I grew up before playing snake on a phone. Anything good the world will rape till it's evil. We can't have good things. It's not worth it. Shit look what happened to democracy.

Honestly the older I get the more I want to move off the grid and disconnect from all this mass marketed manipulation of the human species.

Always seems to be the people who understand computers the least that are tasked with selling these products or managing the companies they makes them. By these products I do of course mean AI and microsoft

Being unable to get my computer to do what I want because I don’t know how it works is less frustrating than being unable to get my computer to do what I want because •it• doesn’t know how it works.

LLMs ARE impressive! Impressive as hell! But the use case is limited and I do not want that shit jammed in my OS.

Never been a better time to ditch Windows.

If every single screen produced between 30 and 25 years ago just so happened to have a Snake game you had to look at every few minutes, people's (rightful) impressedness would turn into equally rightfull unimpressedness bordering on disgust.

It's not LLMs technologically that's unimpressive. It's shoving them down people's throats.

Sometimes less is more.

I love the fact that the idiot reckons he can just bluster his way out of this. People are really upset about the decisions Microsoft are making, and it's not as if they don't have competition. His response to all of this is to quadruple down on his already brainless decision.

No company in history has ever deserved to lose as much as Microsoft has.

Current AI image generation is really impressive if you compare it to previous ones like openais gpt2

Its unimpressive when compared to humans, who manage to do so much

LLMs are the lava lamp of computing.

My friend installed a local LLM copilot to his computer and asked it if he had any extra files that could be deleted. It just doesn't seem smart to query a LLM when people have hard coded apps that will do the same. I have a space saving program that searches app directories and my files and lists unwanted files that I van delete to save space. Why are we remaking the wheel with half of the bloat LLMS is trash

No, fuck that. Bullshit generators are not impressive. It’s a million monkeys with typewriters, not Shakespeare.

I do not want to have to interact with my computer by having my commands interpreted by a million goddamned monkeys.

Imagine if Nokia pushed Snake as hard as Microsoft is pushing AI.

Lots of tech and science is super cool. Time dilation and its compensation is incredible. I don't want that to be the main focus of my phone or OS, but I'm glad we use it for GPS satellites. It's not a multi trillion dollar industry that should take up a sizable chunk of energy usage, nor should it be a large percent of US GDP.