Stupid that some apps are making us pay extra for the AI we never asked for
Stupid that some apps are making us pay extra for the AI we never asked for
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That is the end game of AI. They are free now as they are in disruption and growth phase with lots of competition. But in a few years most will have gone bust or been acquired until only 2-3 remain. Society will become dependent on them, and then they will roll out expensive subscriptions.
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That's why I think is important to find a way to "community" train models, so there's always a free open source alternative.
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or keep a place like lemmy free of bots, so we can exchange and search information still.
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Unless we get Mad Max instead.. I'm still really hopeful for mutually assured Destruction! Dystopian LamePunk isn't a future I'm onboard with.
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Exactly.
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If only it did, instead of just doing it
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Really? What apps in particular? Asking, because I have not come across "extra payment for unrequested AI" yet.
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OneDrive: we are putting up the price of our family plan significantly.
Also one drive: look at all the new AI stuff we have added to your plan
(Also OneDrive: yes your 6 person plan is for sharing but you can't share the new stuff we've added to your sharing plan)
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Google added a AI at the top of search results with a premium version that's supposed to be better somehow.
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Hey man it’d be better than what we got now
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It didnt say a swer that correctly.
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Once we can no longer search for answers.... They will start charging for giving us ... Edited answers
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Don’t want AI on google?
Easy peasy just type -noai after your search string.
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Don't want to get hit in the face? Easy. Just say "Don't hit me in the face" every time someone walks in the room.
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Don't want AI on your search?
Easy peasy just use Duck Duck Go.
Bonus: So many things but also no more captcha on every search because they don't like you protecting your own privacy.
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DDG is amazing. They do have the option of AI though with duck.ai. Their products are great. I may be a bit bias, I've been using it for 12 years.
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There is no way that actually works. Its probably going to show me porn or something.
Edit: What the fuck ?! (it works)
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Dude I fucking hope every AI chatbot get put behind a paywall soon. Do you know how quickly these pointless AI assistants would die?
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People will still pay for it because consumerism or smth.
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Who uses Google in 2025?
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IDK like 200 million people???
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All that electricity ain't free, and the TechBros sure don't want to pay the light bill. It's not good enough that LLMs and their successors be useful and successful. Unless they change the whole economy, lots of somebodies have been burning trillions of dollars.
Its effectively a stochastic ponzii scheme where instead of being spent they just turn the money directly into entropy to noise-up all knowledge. It might genuinely ha:e been more productive to light it all on fire.