Exactly.

The more you use AI the more data you are providing it.

1. They want data in the hope they can train their data centre hosted LLM's to be accurate enough to take many jobs.
2. If they achieve this, and make every company and country dependent on their LLM, they rinse, and the former middle class is as fucked as the working class have been since 1980's de-industrialisation. You're either made redundant, or your job can now be done by a long line of redundant people.

It is a race to the bottom.

At least, this is one possible outcome. There is a decent chance their data centre hosted LLM's just won't be accurate enough for mass deployment.

It definitely feels buzzword-like & vague. Kind of like how Web3 Blockchain XYZ was slapped on to a lot of stuff

When someone comes up with something like this, I transport the phrase back to the 80s where people said the exact same thing about home computers. "if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it." Ok great but a computer turned out to be something everyone wanted or needed which is why computers were built into everything by the turn of the 90s, famously leading to the Y2k bug.

Then I transport the phrase back to the mid 90s where people said the exact same thing about the internet. By the end of the 90s, the internet provided the backbone communications structures for telecommunications, emergency management, banking, education, and was built into every possible product. Ten years later people got smartphones and literally couldn't put them down.

They want it to be the next step in controlling and raping the masses. That's why they're shoving it down our throats.

I suggest keeping your mouth closed tightly, and not engaging in any way with it. We should all see these early reports of the most vulnerable amongst us becoming obsessed with their AI relationships as a huge warning--red banners and klaxons sounding. Run! RUN! Run far away and stay there.

Dealers give drugs for free until you're hooked...

Those trying to sell it are trying to figure out where it's most useful. In one way, I think it's an amazing technology, and I also wonder how it can be best used. However, I can't stand it being pushed on me, and I wish I could easily say no. Acrobat Reader is particularly unbearable with it. Trying to describe a drawing?? Ughhh. Waste of space and energy like nothing else.

I don't know if the printer analogy is a good one but I'm down with what you're saying. The rise of GUI in the early days really did push printing in extreme ways

it isnt, the fact they are shoveling into every tech, retail included, means its about to burst. they are just stemming the bleeding so they recoup some losses.

It needs to be shoved in your face so they can get your face in the database.

This was exactly my thought when MS finally decided to force Copilot to be licensed. They have literally inserted it into every nook and cranny they can so far and the only conclusion I can come to is that they royally f'ed up. Like they invested so much in it and likely aren't seeing anything profitable. In a way, it satisfies me to see them act so desperate for something so futile but I don't want it to continue. It's clear what damages they have caused and it's not worth it.

Here's a similar perspective: as a vegetarian, seeing advertisement selling meat is good: it means the animal exploitation industry is struggling and needs to promote their "product" which need nearly no advertising for years if not decades.

It's very similar here: the advertising (in the form of putting it where you can't miss it, in the tools you use everyday) is trying to convince you to use something many people are apparently just not that interested in.

I think AI is doing exactly what it was cracked up to do: profit.

exactly right

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved your face by every product

Counter point: Yes it absolutely would be. There would still be competition between models and products and a need for brand recognition. If you had a product with a feature someone "wanted or needed" you wouldn't advertise that??? AI aside this is just silly

I pay for Gemini and I haven’t used it in months. I don’t see any real case uses for me as an engineer. It just produces trash I have to fix and could have avoided if I did it myself in the beginning.