I assume headline writers want clicks.

These stories are starting to feel like the “Trump could be in big trouble now” headlines where nothing ever fucking happens.

See I still remember when I didn’t have to scan my face to get a machine to do something. And that’s the way it will always be. For me.

You go, Kirbs!

It’s a grift, inside a con, wrapped up in a scam!

I don’t know anything about the source, but the Meta connection to Cambridge Analytica and the former’s connection to Brexit and trump is already damning enough. Canada will be next to fall to military psyops tactics.

To be succinct: Meta is a threat to the entire planet. Delete your accounts and all of their apps from your phones now.

Or, don’t, and continue to give them data with which to create literal psycholological military operations to enable fascism with.

Reminds me of this scene from The Wiz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-UJR2tip3c

CW: Metaphors

I mean, it’d have to be pretty impressively fucked up to outdo Brexit. So far, it is!

Pop Quiz: What does Cambridge Analytica have to do with both?

Palantir is straight-up evil.

HE HAS A LITTLE BASEBALL HAT!!!

Squeeee!

what dis gasket doin dere

Unfair Use

Pesticides and climate destruction?

Waiting for the next headline to have “Experts suggest” this.

Yeah, that’s probably the difference

Okay, and fair enough, but I don’t want anything going to anyone. If it’s apple, it’s at least part of that DPA and it’s part of the whole deal, but OpenAI can gtfo of my phone. That’s a hard no.

Even then - what, find all the pictures of my dog bucky and message them to grandma? I guess? Put pushpin icons on the map where all my phot -oh wait it already does that. Umm . . how many of my phone contacts are Masons? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I dunno - I just don’t know what I’d use it for.

Why, what, is there something different about the Google guy?

ChatGPT is there to understand the language and context of the request

Like, how? Or why? I admit I don’t use Siri hardly at all but the most I wanted from it was making a note, calling someone, or getting a simple search back. ChatGPT only does the latter that I know of, and its answers are often poorly sourced and often very wrong.

I don’t know - based on that - why I’d let it near anything actually important.

I’d have to know more specifics to really answer but the gist is that it will cost an exorbitant amount fir very little gain. There’s no magic to be had and every single honest survey shows people overwhelmingly don’t want it.

Sure, so long as it doesn’t mess up. Which is not possible. AI has no idea what a calendar is or what the word calendar means. And even if they do limit it to basic functionality like speech to text or scheduling, it already does most of that amd they’d be plowing millions into the slightest improvements.

On the other hand if they try to expand it and have it, say, plan a trip for you - it’s either not going to work or it’s going to have enough spectacular faults that it’s effectively unusable.

They’re falling for the hype even though they know it’s just hype.