froztbyte

haha thanks

a couple weeks back, I was (bc reasons) looking around to see how to turn off goog's annoying gemini bullshit in an account, and you can!

except then even after doing that, accounts in that org still got prompts (in the form of in-app banners, and sparklebuttons in shit like gmail) to Try The Model

it looks like people aren't biting enough, because now you get it whether you like it or not, for the low low price of pushing up your base account fee! and I checked in one org - "Gemini App" is disabled org-wide, but the fucking prompt is immediately in the UI (and you get a modal popover opening gmail)

fuck these people so much

some of the first research science on promptfondlers and model-affine dipshits is starting to see the light of day and, in what will surprise probably 0% of our regulars, it confirms some things

(I have grumped about their desire for outsourced thinking in the past myself)

takes label sticker, writes "agentic" on it, slaps it on the model

look! agentic! that'll be $30b in funding, thx

that, but also I meant specifically that it allows them to "build confidence" inside the company

"look, we've been running ads on mdn for weeks now, and no-one's complained! obvies we can put it on $xyz other places now too!" with a heavy subtext of "why are you being the one that's obstructing this?"

I possess no insider information whatsoever and I'll fairly confidently state that I think it's a fucking strategic choice. guess we get to wait 6~12mo to see how cassandra that statement is

that tracks

it's one of their best places to start boiling the frog

nasb, it warms my cold diamond heart to continue seeing instances of people going "oh, yeah, uh.... actually, no, fuck that shit. we'll do it ourselves" in response to broadcom's attempt to Raise Revenue Through Product Capture

my first thought on hearing the same was "if this is what he's like in public, imagine what it's like at home"

ow.

I mean he must know they will come after him next

big piles of money, and all the power bases he's accrued

there's long precedent of collaborators who were instrumental in the projects of harm and suppression still being able to flourish throughout selfsame projects

gonna add a whole new weight to "lying synthesis machines" :|

gather round kids, it's time to sing the monopoly song