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This is hilariously absurd to me
Usually people install custom ROMs specifically to avoid surveillance and random crap running in the background and improve performance, but this is the complete opposite.
I can't imagine why you would want any of that. There's nothing in my life or nearby imagined lives that's so arduous I need an AI "agent" to take care of it.
This supports the hypothesis that it's driven by out of touch rich people who are used to having an executive assistant. They can't imagine doing daily tasks because they don't. "Making a dinner reservation? Myself?? How gauche. Get Amanda to do it."
They then think everyone is like them.
I don't think it's that they're out of touch. I think they really want your data. Imagine AI sending a screenshot of your screen every second back to whoever made it and whoever can be bothered to listen in. I think everything else, like the marketing and hype around it, is consensus building.
I'm sure they want the data for money and other nefarious purposes. But as the other person said, I think the way they try to sell people on it reveals they're out of touch. And maybe a little that AI's offerings aren't actually that good.
But a commercial that's like "it can write a birthday note for your daughter!" is a bleak reflection of someone's world. That's not going to resonate with most people. That's the kind of thing a soulless husk with no real bond with their child would think is good.
Yea, that's a good point. I guess in my head since I have no real use for an AI they all seem equally stupid, but the birthday thing does make it seem even worse.