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I see no legitimate reason to let ANY AI have full access to my computer. It's just unnecessary.
If I need to ask an AI to proofread something, or I need help sorting through a programming error. I'll go to its website and ask it.
There is no reason (for me) to let it sit there chilling on my computer 24-7 doing good knows what.
ALL your data is belong to me.
Fuck you. I’ve been talking to my computer since 1995. You wanna start some shit and have that viscous mother fucker start responding to me? Fuck you! Eat all the bags of dicks. That’s why I’ve been running Linux since 2020 you daft mother fuckers.
Oh look it's Cortana 2
Switch to linux, use open source AI. It's better and private.
ai is the 3d movies of this age.
Yessss I was just saying that to a friend. Its starting to really feel like we're gonna be looking back in a few years laughing at it as a trend. Time will tell!
Does anyone still know anyone with a 3D TV?
My uncle bought a $2,000 one but the cheap fuck only ever bought 1 pair of glasses.
Never got to see it in action.
My dad bought one in probably 2006 or something but it died in 2020.
Visio had a good tv during that time.
Was the 3D part ever used? That’s a big “fuck-nah,” but it’s always been that.
Honestly, people are rightfully concerned about Microsoft locking down machines, and hackers, and rightfully so, but I think the real insanity is that I do really think LLMs is a tech bubble that I fully expect to burst, and attempting to redesign our lives around it will feel as silly as web3 in 2025.
"Open the browser. No, not explorer, Edge! Open Edge, god damn it! Go to CNN.com. why did you open another browser window? No, I don't want to open another browser window. Open the news "Everything sucks and we are all going to die". Why did you open Bing? Stop asking for confirmation for everything...
I wonder when they start removing being able to make administrator account on regular licences and make you beg the ai for anything that requires elevated rights.
If a tech executive says we're on the cusp of a technology breakthrough it means less than nothing and we should be more suspicious of it than already. These are people who don't know how to manage an organization based on the frequent layoffs (2009, 2014, 2023-2025 over 20k workers). People get fired because they fuck up, management layoff people because management fucked up.
Yes, "control." That's what Microsoft wants you to have over "your" computer.
Well, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks.
I hate any voice-activated programs. Sometimes I'll ask my phone to call someone, and most of the time it does. But every now and then, it seems to completely forget my voice, the English language, how to access my contacts, how to spell anything, etc. I end up spending five minutes trying to force it to dial by my voice, screaming and cursing at it like a psychopath, when it would have taken me literally 3 seconds to just make the call manually.
If you try to do some sort of voice-to-text thing, it ALWAYS screws it up so bad, that you end up spending more time editing, than if you'd just typed it yourself in the first place.
Fuck voice-activated anything. It NEVER works reliably.
It isn't even unique to AI, human operators get things wrong all the time. Any time you put something involving natural language between the user/customer and completing a task, there's a significant risk of it going wrong.
The only time I want hands-free anything is when driving, and I'd rather pull over than deal with voice activation unless it's an emergency and I can't stop driving.
I don't get this fascination with voice activation. If you asked me to describe my dream home if money was no object and tech was perfect, voice activation would not be on the list. When I watch Iron Man or Batman talking to a computer, I don't see some pinnacle of efficiency, I see inefficiency. I can type almost as fast as I can speak, and I can make scripts or macros to do things far faster than I can describe them to a computer. Shortcuts are far more efficient than describing the operation.
If a product turns to voice activation, that tells me they've given up on the UX.
And I would like Microsoft to go fuck itself. 🖕🥰🖕
I hear you need help with how to fuck yourself.
I have not touched a Microsoft product or service for my personal life in 10 years. Last year I was fired, thus no longer being forced to use Teams.
Which means I haven't touched a Microsoft product, at all, in a year. Love it.
The way that all this "AI" processing has been trained, it almost always fails for anyone who doesn't fit the white middle-class aesthetic. Voice-to-text generative AI processing will screw up for people with accents, including non-native speakers; also someone who slurs their words, or talks in African-American Vernacular English. Also, it requires someone to know how to speak and listen in a language. Clicking on icons and inputting commands is the same regardless of what language you speak. This just reeks of out-of touch nepo-baby executives.
“CORTANA, OPEN XHAMSTER.COM”
loudly said george in the public school’s computer lab.
I love the idea!
I absolutely despise it when it is locked down from the user, owned by the corporation that produced it, and operating as an arm of the surveillance state.
Even discounting the need for safeguards, sanity-checks, and verifiability of information.
Those monstrosities are not allowed in my home until I can remove the spyware operating system.
Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.
Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we're using.
This has been a Microsoft wishlist feature since the 90s. I remember being a kid and reading articles in my dad's copies of PC Magazine that Bill Gates wanted a computer without a keyboard that you could just talk to and tell it what to do.
So yeah, C-level intelligence is exactly right.
Yeah, I absolutely hate talking to devices, it's inefficient and frustrating. Why would I want that as the primary interface to my computer?
Complex UX should be solved in two ways:
If I'm asking an AI tool how to do something with your product, you need to fix your product.
Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.
They never learn. This is what happens when clueless MBAs make your strategic decisions.
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.
I was curious about an LLM-powered terminal, so downloaded it to check it out. The first thing I did was ask it to do something like "open my resume file," and instead doing something like "ls | grep -i resume" in the current directory, it ran the find command on root and started hitting all my NFS mounts as well.
I'll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.
People have been doing that with their Alexas all this time already. They have paid Amazon to bug their houses so they won't have to press a light switch by hand anymore.
"We are on the cusp of the next AI evolution, in which we, the tech company, can simply say the word 'Money' to our AI, and it will automatically transfer money directly from our investors into our wallets. Future versions won't require us to say anything, permitting AIs to write their own next press release for budding, just-around-the-corner technology in an E-mail to investors."
