mccNow that the Bing "AI" has taken away my favorite phone keyboard, I'm thinking about using robots.txt to remove my websites from Bing, in order to prevent incorporation in their AI chat and discourage people from switching to "Bing". But it feels almost pointless because "Bard" is probably going to be forced on us in Google (and probably forced into GBoard, for that matter) sooner rather than later anyway).
John Harris@mcc I guess the future is going to be an endless sequence of tech fads foisted on us by big companies against our will.
@rodneylives There was an era that everything was tech companies giving us extremely complex things for free, and that entire time the only reason they were giving it to us for free was they expected someday they'd be able to Extract something from us. That's what's happening here. The future is the bill for everything they claimed to us was free.
@rodneylives …of course, SwiftKey is an interesting case there because before Microsoft bought it it *wasn't free*, and I actually *did pay for it*, but Microsoft made it free anyway because they preferred the business model where you give something away for free and then later use dependence on it to foist unrelated things on people against their will (in this case, including the people who did pay for it)