Honestly, Youtube was already pretty shit with all of the obvious monetization schemes and paid “influencer” content. Even though I never watch reaction videos I feel like they are always recommended to me. Their algorithms were already busted to prefer user-created slop. This is just another step towards complete enshittification.
I really wish that TPUSA would just fade into obscurity, but I guess Erika is getting fat checks from Republicans now. She sure has been on a media warpath.
I think part of this is lawmakers not understanding the gravity of what they’re suggesting. Besides, most of these apps have some sort of backdoor built-in so they can decrypt messages if required in legal proceedings. Ripping E2EE out of everything is an insane assertion to make, and would make the Internet an even more dangerous place than it already is.
It’s good to see the sentiment growing. Anecdotally, there are non-technical people in my circle that use LLMs frequently as search engine replacements or to do stupid shit like generate pictures and emojis. I hope that begins to decline with the general sentiment called out in this article.
The sheer number of useless LLM integrations in every website, every mobile app, and hell, even smart TVs is insane. I feel like it’s causing people very real feature fatigue. And all of the Internet content and advertising slop is making the takeover seem so much worse.
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Slack does have AI features now, mostly focused around summarization. I found the features pretty useless and turned them off (as much as they allow you to, at least). It’s not very often that I don’t care to know the whole context of messages I receive at work. And I do have channels that I usually just skim or ignore that the summaries weren’t super helpful for. It strips out way too much of the conversation.
Similarly, I really dislike the Apple Intelligence summarization features. It drove me to finally turn off Apple Intelligence on all my devices. Do people find summarization useful? Genuinely curious for use cases.