CiaraFeb 9, 2025

The only digital subscription service I want is a subscription to a real-life IT person in my real-life local community who will go into my phone and computer once a month to remove all the new AI features and other enshittifying features that companies have sneaked onto my devices against my will since the last time.

Seriously. If AI is so fanbloodytastic, why do they have to sneak it in and hide any off-switches?

Show threadBrian Ragle (he/him/his) 🇺🇸🖖🏼Feb 9, 2025

@CiaraNi The goal is normalization so that when they replace those IT guys with AI, your AI-enabled devices can just speak to the AI IT guy, in a language that the AIs invent to increase their efficiency.

The alternative is to take control of your local AIs and learn all you can about what they do and how to control them on your local machine, including firewalls to prevent them going out and doing things without your consent.

Show threadque :verifried:
@ragle @CiaraNi im not sure the goal is normalisation ... rather to increase stock price by saying "me too".
dont worry about the reality and usefulness actually is, TO THE MOOOOOOON. or somesuch.
Feb 9, 2025 at 12:58pmWeb
Show threadBrian Ragle (he/him/his) 🇺🇸🖖🏼Feb 9, 2025
@que @ragle @CiaraNi The belief in a coming AGI/ASI is real and nearly cult-like in its fervor. In order to build it, they have to spend a LOT of money and that means they have to produce marketable products. They have to normalize AI being in everything so that it can then be added to everything, without question, to indeed please those stockholders, but it's mainly also to appese them.