Lee Duna

Dear Samsung, I Don't Need AI to Handle Every Task for Me

https://lemmy.nz/post/34799401

Dear Samsung, I Don't Need AI to Handle Every Task for Me - Lemmy NZ

Lemmy

Feb 26 at 4:38pmWeb
Show threadSwitorikFeb 26
You mean any task? I don’t want ai on my phone at all.
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkFeb 26
Galaxy AI will hold your dick while you pee.
Show threadTrooBlooFeb 26
Can I use AI to uninstall AI tools?
Show threadeestileibFeb 26
How lazy do these mother fuckers think we are?
Show threadMoonManKipperFeb 26
It’ll blow over. Remember when the hot new thing was voice controlled assistants - that didn’t happen either.
Show thread4amFeb 26

Kind of hard for it to blow over when they’re making all but the most locked down dumb terminals unaffordable and all commercial software is cramming it in.

I swear no one is paying attention to why this shit is different. This isn’t some fad, this is a coordinated attack on personal computing, and therefore on freedom in the digital age.

Show threadMoonManKipperFeb 27
It all costs money, so if people don’t use it it’ll end up like 3D TV, VR, 8 track tape, voice assistants etc - all these things were going to change the world, but ended up being used where they were useful (and people were prepared to pay for it) - withering everywhere else. AI will be the same - mostly behind the scenes I suspect
Show threadMBechFeb 26
I don’t need your artificial intelligence, I have homegrown intelligence, and it runs on chicken breasts and rice instead of coal.
Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Feb 26
You should toss some broccoli in there, just saying.
Show threadgrueFeb 26
Samsung has been DRM’d user-hostile and property-rights-hostile garbage for a while now.
Show threadJerryMerweatherFeb 26

After one UI 8, all of there devices are boot loader locked with no way to unlock them anymore.

My next phone would be anything that graphene OS supports

Show threadThe Velour Fog Feb 26
The main reason why I’m still hanging on to my Galaxy S9+. My partner recently got a newer/refurb Samsung and it’s insane the amount of bloatware and AI and “features” that can’t be turned off just gets shoved in every phone post 2022. It’ll be a sad day when my banking app stops working on this phone for good.
Show threaddarkmarxFeb 26

I don’t understand why they keep adding AI crap to everything. There can’t be a huge market of people who want it. It’s incredibly expensive to develop and run. Just from an economics point of view it doesn’t add up.

Is it just the corporate equivalent of FOMO? Wouldn’t it make more economic sense for them to release a base device that is capable of having AI apps/agents installed if and when the consumer wants it, rather than defaulting to it? Or are they so tightly bound in their own bubble that they don’t see the problem?

It’s like basic economic theory, has been thrown out the window; along with common sense.

Show threadstarblursdFeb 26
I understand exactly why they keep adding it. They have put all of their eggs in the AI basket. Have seen that it is not profitable and the only way they can hope to make it look profitable and keep the bubble afloat is by forcing it on users to inflate usage metrics
Show thread4amFeb 26
Brother, it’s way more insidious than “we got egg on our face”
Show thread4amFeb 26
  • AI is sold to enterprise as a way to replace human labor with accurate robots. Middle management spooges all over every conference room. No more wages, no more dental plans, no more HR. They go all in, and a bubble is formed.
  • the bubble hype builds momentum, snowballing this effect. Investors are frothing for a piece. Money starts flowing in, the next big gold rush is here.
  • investment allows huge data centers to be built. Regulations are skirted, money is throws around like crazy.
  • computing commodities are captured. The world’s supply of RAM, SSDs, GPUs, and hard drives are gobbled up. Consumer prices shoot through the roof, brands that have sold to consumers and enterprises alive for 30 years pack it up instantly. all anyone can afford are little dumb tablets with no ram that are basically only good for being displays for cloud apps <— you are here
  • All communication starts to be done on cloud apps, all document saves to cloud drives, and all content created by humanity scanned for pattern-matched by AI. I’m not talking about out the mechanical Turk LLMs they trotted out to fool all the middle managers, I’m talking about purpose built models looking for context and meaning in written words (like a specialized LLM to detect biases), patterns in financial documents, engineering designs for things that haven’t been announced yet.
  • we now rent this privilege from the corporations and if they dislike what we are doing they cut us off, essentially making us digitally homeless.

    • You best start believing in techno-fascist dystopias; you’re in one

    Show threadlightnsfwFeb 26
    Make an AI that can blow me while I handle my own tasks I’ll reconsider my opinion on AI.
    Show threadporous_grey_matterFeb 26
    Dear peon: yes you do, and you need to pay for it too
    Show threadgigachadFeb 26
    I always have to cringe so much when I read the term agentic AI
    Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Feb 26
    AI can’t handle a damn thing, it’s useless as an actual assistant. Drives me nuts that Google is kneecapping Assistant (which worked even offline) for a dumpster fire of a replacement that fucks up with things as simple as setting a timer (which it requires an Internet connection to do for some spectacularly stupid reason).
    Show threadSwitorikFeb 26

    This irks me so much. The Google assistant worked, was simple, and only relayed what was needed. This was peak “AI” or whatever you want to call it.

    They forced gemini by default and it’s constantly saying it doesn’t have permission, it doesn’t know how to do this yet, and goes on for a paragraph or two for the simplest query.

    Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Feb 26

    “Set timer for 5 minutes.”

    writes you a poorly informed thesis on timers

    Show threadeatCasseroleFeb 27

    Literally what it was doing to me a couple of hours ago.

    I wanted a sample QR code image to toss into a mock-up, and the first thing that popped up was the “AI answer” telling me about different places I could get a QR code, and I’m like bro, I’m already on a search engine, there’s an ‘images’ tab right there, which contains what I’m looking for.

    Show threadLoremIpsumGeneratorFeb 27

    We dont need AI.

    We need fucking RAM for everyone