Re:AI chatbots are having their “tulip mania” moment
by mercutio2 on Friday February 24, 2023 @11:27AM
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This (incredibly irritating) behavior isn’t an engineering failure, it’s a specific policy failure.
The idea is “we will not give you a way to make our conversional UI incomprehensibly quiet”.
It is an especially dumb policy decision on anything that’s not a HomePod, and it’s also dumb to willfully ignore the user’s intent and focus on the one thing the device is willing to do for you regarding volume, rather than explaining “sorry, I’m always going to be loud, my makers are worried you’ll complain I’m inaudible if you try to get me to stop yelling my responses” but it is deliberate.
The idea is “we will not give you a way to make our conversional UI incomprehensibly quiet”.
It is an especially dumb policy decision on anything that’s not a HomePod, and it’s also dumb to willfully ignore the user’s intent and focus on the one thing the device is willing to do for you regarding volume, rather than explaining “sorry, I’m always going to be loud, my makers are worried you’ll complain I’m inaudible if you try to get me to stop yelling my responses” but it is deliberate.