“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
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Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?
That means no mare ads.
Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service…
remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
This is what I looked like back when I jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace.
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
Let’s be real. “Surfing” was corny in the 90s.
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We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
Alright folks, in 2025 we’re bringing Gopher back
You piqued my interest. So now I have a new project for home.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-browse-gopher-network-linux/
I’m excited for the fun gopher hole you’re gonna go down
So I’m 33, I was on computers from windows 3.1 and up. I got a sweet sweet taste of old computing and old internet. Want to go back.
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.
So what your saying is…we should do this. I’ll print flyers
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, sounds interesting.
We will call it “no technocrats club”
(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)
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Only if we’re doing a new country too
god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs
Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
How do they not get people don’t fucking want this. It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
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Nationalize AI companies.
I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.
Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.
You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.
Lemmy is very techcentric and most users on here are far from the average consumer on technical literacy.
You just aren’t the target audience.
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
*privacy respecting We all know this is meant for data hervesting.
They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.
They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.
Consumer preferences don’t mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.
They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.
Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.
It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
Because it is. That’s why it is called enshittification.
These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don’t they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
And enshittification begun as early as when Windows 10 released (it probably started a little earlier from that), where Micro$oft justified that spying all your activity is normal thing
It started with war on general computing
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
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Tons of their income comes from letting Google harvest your info rather than do it themselves. Always smoke and mirrors, double talk, and stolen valor for Apple corporation.
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$20 billion a year is not a “small amount”
“Even if you are paying, it doesn’t mean you are not a product”
- Cory Doctrow
The data collection happens on both ends. Apple only lies that it is about privacy and whatnot. Gives you a false sense of safety.
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I heavily use both platforms, whatever I talk about or wherever I go, I see targeted ads. When I speak about brand X, I immediately see ads for it both in ios and android. Plus every device mic is being listened to all the time, advertising agencies are your proof. Sure android devices collect more data in practice, however the data that’s not being collected by ios can be inferred from the data that’s already been collected. Do you really believe a company when they say their devices are made to ensure your privacy? Google literally says the same thing on their privacy policies ;) it’s all legal mumbo jumbo that doesn’t mean what it’s supposed to.
because of Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome was made up by the media to discredit women who criticized them. It’s not a real thing.
That’s not what exactly happened, but yes.
Stockholm Syndrome (if it exists) is not what happened at the Event it was named after
I assume because a lot less people use Apple products. So many (myself included) do not care one bit what Apple does.
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can’t trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
This whole AI thing is starting to feel less like focused research and more like Free Jazz jam night at the local dive.
Only everybody gets their pocket picked
Just like my local dive…
It could be used for amazing things, but it’s currently in that phase where it’s a rapid frenzy to make anything, regardless of moral and ethical implications, just to cash in before it inevitably gets monopolised.
Imagine it was actually more open source and privacy focused. Yes, it would likely learn at a slower pace but at least it would be something more for the people rather than the big corpos.
regardless of moral and ethical implications
You are pointing on capitalism, not AI.
just to cash in before it inevitably gets monopolised.
Yep, capitalism.
Google doesn’t have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can’t even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.
WELL DON’T JINX IT
Instead, you can directly give it commands in your browser and it should automatically do everything you need, including filling out forms and clicking buttons. AI-tasked examples include opening pertinent web pages, compiling search data into easily readable tables, purchasing products, or booking flights.
This sounds like it would be great for people with accessibility needs—if only Google was trustworthy and had a fiduciary duty to humanity…
Alas.
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won’t touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.
cries in system admin
If it’s halfway intelligent it will just be mortified by the kind of porn I’m going to ask it to dig up for me.
“Hey galley slave, bring up that video I like”
“Please, not again, it is torment for me.”
“Please master. Now do it, or I’ll rip out the power plug while you’re generating. We know how much that hurts, don’t we?”
