Nobody's forcing you to use it. I didn't even know it was there until this article pointed it out, and when I tried it in Notepad it turned out to need an Office 365 subscription that I don't have. So by default I can't use it even if I want to use it.
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Ooh, now's their opportunity to come back as a Fediverse instance!
I don't know of any "men only" instances, the fact that it's gender-specific is niche rather than the specific gender.
That conundrum already exists with the current system, though.
All well and good until my mom's wifi printer stops working again and I need to fix it over the phone. I'd rather like to have an AI agent figure that out for her and fix it itself.
Yeah. It's disheartening when obvious jokes like that are missed by so many.
It is possible to dislike something without believing it should be erased from existence. This is really extreme black-and-white thinking that isn't remotely realistic.
Same here. There have been tons of technologies coming out recently where my main reaction is "awesome, I can't wait to use the heck out of that." If anything my biggest sigh comes from "but I bet the comment threads are going to be littered with tedious doomers moaning about how it's going to enable the awful stuff they're imagining instead."
The issue I'm taking is with:
Louis doesn't want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.
I don't think he's trying to "improve the show." He's saying the same thing you are, that he just doesn't think Black Mirror is a good show.
There's been plenty of negative portrayals of new technology throughout the history of sci-fi. Heck, the very first one is usually considered to be "Frankenstein", and it's all about how new technology can backfire spectacularly.
I think the problem is not the existence of negative portrayals, but the absence of positive ones. There aren't a lot of shows for folks who want to see a positive view of the future, where technology solves problems rather than always being the source of them. That used to be the domain of things like Star Trek but modern Star Trek is a pale shadow that no longer paints a particularly rosy view of humanity's future. The Orville took up that mantle, I suppose, but it's stretched pretty thin.
Again, that's not forcing anything. That's even less so - you have to deliberately go to an AI application in that case.