• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    I doubt it. Regular folks are ignorant about those issues and what the technology involved implies. AI sounds cool until you realize every single action you take on your computer, every single word you say, everything you look at, is collected and sent to some machine which does god knows what with it.

    That plus the ads. The fucking ads. I’m so god damn tl saturated of seeing ads everywhere. But apparently most folks have grown some kind of immunity to it??

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      8 months ago

      Nah you’re not alone. I’ve despised ads in any form since I can remember. It should be forbidden to hijack my brain with manipulative intrusion. For me marketeers are the lowest and most worthless beings in existence. Humanity could really do better than this crap.

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        8 months ago

        Some ads I really enjoy though. They’re not ALL bad. But it’s the quantity and how they’ve just become omnipresent. Especially with these god damn smart phones. Constantly trying to get our attention.

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      8 months ago

      My highly non-technical SO cursed Microsoft when they pushed that shit into her computer. She didn’t need to understand what AI means, it took space on her task bar and showed useless notifications. Making her annoyed by the space taken, disturb her focus and slow her computer.

      She is stuck on Windows due to a tool she is dependent upon. Already asked me to install Linux on her computer once she have a replacement that will work on Linux.

      tl;dr: non technical people are too pissed at MS.