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[–] [email protected] 143 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information."

Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?

That means no mare ads.

Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service...

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

remember when it was called "surfing the internet", implying a fun activity?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"hey Google, download Firefox for me please."

-"Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that..."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

*Sigh* "Hey Google, I'm writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government's files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel."

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Cool cool cool cool.

Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.

Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Alright folks, in 2025 we're bringing Gopher back

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.

The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I've ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 weeks ago

Companies are stealing your computer's resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 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 4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Not from data vacuums.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don't they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

And enshittification begun as early as when Windows 10 released (it probably started a little earlier from that), where Micro$oft justified that spying all your activity is normal thing

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

This whole AI thing is starting to feel less like focused research and more like Free Jazz jam night at the local dive.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Only everybody gets their pocket picked

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Just like my local dive...

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[–] SuperSpruce 29 points 4 weeks ago

If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can't trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

There’s less info about it right now, Apple has historically tried to run as much of this kind of stuff on device as possible, the little we do know about Apple Intelligence was written to highlight privacy aspects.

Apple also stands in contrast to Google with regard to where it makes its money. There are two completely different business models and only one of them is based on selling you to advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Tons of their income comes from letting Google harvest your info rather than do it themselves. Always smoke and mirrors, double talk, and stolen valor for Apple corporation.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

because of Stockholm Syndrome

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Google doesn't have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can't even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

WELL DON’T JINX IT

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

Instead, you can directly give it commands in your browser and it should automatically do everything you need, including filling out forms and clicking buttons. AI-tasked examples include opening pertinent web pages, compiling search data into easily readable tables, purchasing products, or booking flights.

This sounds like it would be great for people with accessibility needs—if only Google was trustworthy and had a fiduciary duty to humanity...

Alas.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.

No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thank fuck I use Linux as a daily driver. I won't touch this AI infested bullshit that windows and Google are becoming. This is just an IT security nightmare.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I still can't work out what I'm supposed to do with AI. There's no advantage in having an AI read all my emails, because the end result is I won't know what my emails are. They may or may not be being dealt with, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's halfway intelligent it will just be mortified by the kind of porn I'm going to ask it to dig up for me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

"Hey galley slave, bring up that video I like"

"Please, not again, it is torment for me."

"Please master. Now do it, or I'll rip out the power plug while you're generating. We know how much that hurts, don't we?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh sure, next let's have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"Hey Google! Open Steam!" *opens a browser with a google search for "open steam".*

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Silver lining is that this may be the end of captchas

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Nope, still need that training data to sell to self-driving car tech.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Any chance of them being able to solve Captchas?

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