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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's advertising. It's shoved in your face so you use Copilot instead of Google.

I setup a brother all in one printer for my mother in law and it wanted to install software that loads at startup that pops up constantly with their printer toner sales and marketing.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 10 months ago

    I learned a long time ago to never install manufacturer printer drivers. Or, at least, never install them from the provided Setup.exe.

    They've always installed a bunch of bloatware (HP has always been the worst but other brands are just as bad).

    If you look in the setup folder, there's usually the raw drivers you can install from Device Manager. If the driver package is just a single .exe file, you can usually unpack it with 7zip and get at its inner contents.

    If that fails, the system-included HP LaserJet 4200 PCL driver is about as close to a universal print driver as you can find lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It is just advertising. The more I think about it the more I can't think of any practical use for generative AI that doesn't involve essentially spamming everyone.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The more I think about it the more I can’t think of any practical use for generative AI

    It really does improve productivity. The problem is thinking a spell checker on steroids will do your job (the mistake both employees and employers make).

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It doesn't really improve productivity much for me. And if you take into account the emails I receive from coworkers written with copilot then I'm actually doing more work to decipher what they are trying to say.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It’s also investor money talking. Looks like everyone with at least a few dollars to spare wants to get on the AI hype train. They have dumped an absurd amount of money on AI, and now they can’t wait to see those stock prices climb. These expectations put an immense amount of pressure on all AI companies to push their products anywhere and everywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It also puts pressure on non-AI companies to integrate AI into their products, regardless of whether or not it improves the product. If you can say “look, we’ve got AI” then you’ll find it easier to attract new investors and keep your current ones happy. If you don’t have AI, then you risk looking behind the curve.

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