Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out? | As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first?

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They can be offered to choose.

Opt-out is always bad because it is meant to exploit users who are not aware that a certain feature can be turned off. Even among those who do, not all are confidently going through settings.

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Just because you brought up copilot, I think people need to see this

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Not yet on pc, but iPhone 16 has a chip already and the new copilot certified laptops will have it as well. MacOS has the capabilities already with that Daemon mentioned in the video.

The era of surveillance is making huge progress every week.

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I guessed it was the classic "first one cones free, the next one we'll see". They are offering AI for free to make people dependent on the technology, once people can't live without their AI, then corporations will start profiting from subscriptions.

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I tried co-pilot. Once.

I asked it "why does Windows Defender peg my HDD* at 100%"

The reply was "I don't know, but here are some google searches that might help"

Microsoft's own co-pilot doesn't seem to have access to microsoft products, so now I uninstall/deactivate it every opportunity I can.

*yes, a HDD. Not ideal for performance these days, but it's the last laptop I have with a HDD, and I use it for experiments.

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This is it. “We spent so damn much money on this, we gotta see some NUMBERS on the dashboard!”

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For the user data. That's it. That's why it exists. That and the dream of replacing some jobs.

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Because must people are too lazy and/or stupid to bother up putting out. If they had an authentic metric for demand then they couldn't trick the share value into going up.

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I call bullshit. Because no LLM ever says, "I don't know." It just confidently invents an answer out of thin air.

Only mostly facetious here...

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lmao, who is going to OPT INto the anti-privacy replace-your-job machine?

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