Neil CraigApr 30, 2025

Feels like we're now firmly in the "desperation" phase for companies who have sunk a ton of cash into AI which nobody asked for. They're frantically trying to justify that spend in via evidence of "user engagement" in any way they can.

I'm sure we're all seeing increasing pushiness and use of dark patterns to force use of AI e.g. WhatsApp searchbar now being "Ask Meta AI or Search"

#AI #GenAI #AIHorseShit

Show threadSteve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
@tdp_org I am certainly getting tired of the Android messages app popping up notifications on my phone "reminding" me that I can talk to Google's stupid AI through the messages app. I've not found a way to suppress them without suppressing SMS notifications too, and even if I wanted to use AI why the hell would I want to do it through the messages app of all things?!
Apr 30, 2025 at 10:17amWeb
Show thread𒉽 Stephen Littleton ❀ β›ŒApr 30, 2025
@steve @tdp_org They're out of ideas. They've been fronted out, They have all the security so they cannot claim being hacked. They cannot say oops a mistake at this level anymore, so who else? ai. They just sit behind the remote console and talk to you using a think tank when they want to show off.

What else is it other than a glorified scapegoat? It's also a money maker, they are pitching the idea to people who want the AI to help "manage their life" which is a great concept! I'm not so sure about the execution, however, as I do not have a billion dollars to "try it out".
Show threadJayeLTeeApr 30, 2025

@steve

If this is about Gemini, for me it worked going into the phone settings, searching for "assistant" and then on assistant settings change from Gemini to the old Google Assistant

Show threadSteve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊApr 30, 2025
@JayeLTee Its the Messages app that is popping up notifications, not the assistant app (which appears to be set to "Google" - Gemini isn't an option)
Show threadJayeLTeeApr 30, 2025
@steve Ah I had a similar issue but it was related to Gemini being enabled one day randomly without even asking, disabling it ended all AI prompts I was getting