The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.

[deviantollam@defcon.social]

The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.

I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?

[darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io]

@deviantollam

Microsoft has shit in their own bed. And they don't care.

[errant@mastodon.sdf.org]

@deviantollam clippy, but that only lasted for like a month

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

@deviantollam The closest thing I can think of is pop-up/under ads.

And considering (outside a very small crowd of ad thugs) those had the popularity of genital herpes...

[ahasty@techhub.social]

@deviantollam too many important people (read billionaires) have too much money tied up in AI being used by everyone as a mass surveillance machine to figure out how to extract as much wealth as possible from everyone so they can add it to their hoard in their underground bunkers where the have private water sources. Lizzard people are real, turns out they were actually dragons.

[inari@squeaky.social]

@deviantollam its pretty disgusting as a dev being forced into using it otherwise your job is gone. And then they’re trying to find a way to kill your job entirely anyways.

[someamateur@defcon.social]

@deviantollam Go to This PC>Program Files (x86) and then search "copilot". Cry. Then delete it all.

There's update and setup programs and a ton of files like "copilotdata", "identity_helper" etc

@pluralistic is right, this shit is the asbestos of the software world. I bet all that comes back with each windows update

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@deviantollam It's because it was never ever about what we actually want. It was always about what they perceive as a thing that will someday make them lots of money if they push it hard enough and more and more they're seeing it not make that money so they're pushing harder and harder with a fast growing desperation. (And wow are they getting desperate. Anyone with 1/100th of a brain would realize by now it's never going to make the money they think it is. But CEOs and board members aren't hired for their brains...)

[mgd81@infosec.exchange]

@deviantollam I doubt we can get permission, but a giant funeral pyre for the copilot logo in the parking lot at DEFCON might make us all feel better. Kind of like Burning Man, but much more cathartic.

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@deviantollam clippy?

[tati@eldritch.cafe]

@deviantollam

[unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world]

@deviantollam@defcon.social the only thing that comes close is clippy.

[idlebrain@infosec.exchange]

@deviantollam I switched to IoT LTSC just to avoid this crap getting auto-forced into the system.

The complete lack of opt-in is the most infuriating thing. It's my computer not Microsoft's.

[fartnuggets@jorts.horse]

@deviantollam Every software that pivoted to subscription instead of purchase and own.

[allpoints@mstdn.social]

@deviantollam I have a policy to not send email when cranky, or worse. Yesterday, I failed to follow that policy.

#AI #BigTech

[vex@kolektiva.social]

@deviantollam yes, imperialism.

[astronomy_a2z@mstdn.social]

@deviantollam Switch to Linux...

[garretpolk@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@deviantollam X10?

[mbirth@social.mbirth.uk]

@deviantollam Whenever somebody tells me how he used AI to do something, I have to think of this comic:

(Source: https://www.twonks.co.uk)

[haitchfive@oldbytes.space]

@deviantollam I'm genuinely puzzled by the heightened emotions that these tools appear to elicit when some users install them, and how their reactions are not directed at the companies that produce them.

I swear I've never seen that icon pop up when using my computer.

Install something else?