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So, Microsoft has now made the "focused inbox" the standard in Outlook. It lets AI decide for you which e-mails are relevant and shown directly, and which aren't, and hidden behind a button (which is too complicated for the employees at my org to find).
Apparently, e-mails sent from the CEO to the entire org aren't relevant.
I google how to deactivate it.
The entire first page shows AI-written blogs.
On top of the Google page, of course, is an AI summary, which I don't trust.
So I click through to the source it uses.
It takes me to the Microsoft support forum where someone asked that exact question.
And find out that Microsoft now lets AI answer the questions there.

So when I'm looking for how to deactivate an AI, I get a reply by AI that sources another reply by AI.

If I then say "fuck Google" and wade through the official documentation, Microsoft redirects me to a page that AI-translates it to my language. Replacing the "de-de" string in the url with "en-us" I arrive at the original documentation. Which is of course also written by AI.

I'm sick of it.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just remember that LLMs are good at one thing: summarizing large volumes of text with reasonable confidence.

AI isn’t a product for you. AI is a wet dream for the companies that built profiles on you.

The giant datacenters that steal away all the drinking water are there in order to “read your mind”. They know what you are and what you want before you do.

And this is so beyond advertising. Imagine having the power to understand the collective minds of most of humanity at once. Imagine being able to influence it.

They are even talking about building hives and becoming the queen bees. (Look up “network cities” or “Freedom cities”)

Everything is in the cloud now, including your personal and business documents. All software is a service. You can’t afford your own computer anymore, you don’t even have one of those old-fashioned things. You just have a tablet, and a phone. “I’m not a nerd, it’s all I need. That other stuff is too much work, I like how simple this is.”