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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

How do they not get people don't fucking want this. It's like they're in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.

Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nationalize AI companies.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.

Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.

You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.

Lemmy is very techcentric and most users on here are far from the average consumer on technical literacy.

You just aren't the target audience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.

Not from data vacuums.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

*privacy respecting We all know this is meant for data hervesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.

They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.

Consumer preferences don't mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's like they're in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.

Because it is. That's why it is called enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.