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kleinbl00  ·  1646 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Time is it in London?

AI is a way for multinational tech corps to silo you away from the Internet. "I could search for it but then I might see information that hasn't been carefully cultivated to maximize the profit centers of the device in my hand so instead I'll ask it so they can run my simple query through proprietary bullshit."

My Samsung has four buttons. One of them does nothing but wake up "bixby", the R/C Cola of digital assistants. It is due to this button that it is far easier to accidentally take a screengrab of nonsense than deliberately take a picture of something and it is so vital to Samsung's future that the button cannot be repurposed to something else.