Re:I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
by spwa4 on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:04AM
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But all governments, or at least all the ones I deal with on a regular basis, are switching to AI for essentially everything as well. The issue I already see coming more and more is that they just don't have an escape hatch (whereas your bank's helpdesk, which no doubt is doing the same does have an escape hatch to talk to a real human ... usually after waiting 10 hours to one song). Your passport renewal gets denied? "Please try again" and back into the app + AI recognition you go!
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Re:I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
by ajkjk on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:33AM
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I don't really care if someone uses AI for something that it's useful for. But that's not why random bullshit websites are doing it. They're trying to get you use it for some other reason--either a (likely false) hypothesis that "AI feature users = more engaged = more likely to pay" or "AI feature users = an audience that's set up to be advertised to = investors are happy to hear about this" or something.
That, or the <18 and >50 users are all addicted to the AI mode and I have no idea because I'm not in either of those buckets, or something. But it's still disrespectful, even if some people are clicking on it.