When you ask an LLM to name itself, "Scout" is a very common name for it to come up with. That and "echo".
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Duh. I wouldn't have called it "addiction", but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn't take away classical search.
I thought that was obvious from the start.
Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it's always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.
At this rate I will have to do like Terry Davis and make my OWN minimalistic OS to escape this AI plague.
That shit should set off alarm bells of all regulators… but we elect people who don’t give a fuck so…
Legitimately most modern games or all of social media.
By taking away any other options?
Be like google, make search so shitty and monetized the only thing left is AI results.
At least they're honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.
Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We're still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.
As a skeptic, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.
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Uhh yeah thats the long term profit concept of LLMs, force them onto people for free until they cant live without them, then jack up the price. Its been pretty obvious...
They should make slop vapes.
Knowing Microslop, I'm not too worried. They'll either scrap the idea before implementing it or make it so shitty people won't use it. Let them try for the shits n giggles.
... how? They can't just say it and expect it to happen. People have to want to use it. How, in the absolute shit sauce, could you possibly be addicted to an AI? What even is the goal?
This is kinda where big business have ended up. They no longer care for the product they're making, and instead directly aim at the end goal