I'm getting the feeling that most people wouldn't hate AI so much if it wasn't: 1. Built of the labor of let's without fair compensation, and 2. Wasn't a privacy nightmare. I think people would be okay with it even in spite of the energy usage because that's something that can be optimized over time. But these other points are systemic societal issues that the current approach to AI entrenches.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.
Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it's taking away our livelihoods, and it's not even really good at it. It's also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we'd be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.
It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It's good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It's decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn't documented.
It's bad at art compared to an artist It's good at art compared to an average electrician.
It's good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It's great at marketing to CEO's.
There's a lot more there than social issues.
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And it'll work half good in English but be completely crap in any other language.
I can’t shake the feeling that Win11 is part of the AI grift master-plan. They’re a big investor in OpenAI, and OpenAI needs to start showing large, genuine revenue. Locking both consumers and business customers into a subscription model for the largest OS by market share to fund this grift seems like exactly such collusion. The required minimum hardware requirements for Win11 feel like the big clue, here.
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Let's assume for a moment that all OS are going to go this way.
Of all the modern well used OS, microsoft is the one I'd trust the least to do it.
Maybe Windows must just lose a massive share of the market to break his enshittification circle.
Iam even more happy to be using Linux 😎
Yeah the ones who went that path now can be super happy about it. We have the best desktop in the world.
It's certainly just going to end up being used as an advertising tool. Like the recent hype of trying to get people let AI do holiday shopping for them. Like the AI saw you opened paint, have you considered a subscription for Adobe cloud. You searched for cake recipes on Google and clicked links, why not sub to copilot+. It'll have text to speech AI as well
MCP?
They're calling it the MCP?
Did they do that on purpose, or are they really so small, soft, uncultured, and tone deaf at Microsoft? It's... Probably the latter, isn't it...
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What? Nobody wants it? Let’s rush it out to users then. — Microsoft
I think the worst two things about this are the impact on the environment and the data collection. If you've ever used chatgpt, have you ever asked it to divulge what it knows about you? 🫠