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Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems by jacquesm on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:22PM (#46895249)
> I hear that going all-in on AI was internally disruptive and probably had some bad side-effects that I'm ignoring, but in hindsight it was the right thing to do.

That's the opposite in my experience. It is driving long term google audience away from google's paying products.

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Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems by dahcryn on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:37AM (#46899503)
why? I don't base my youtube subscription or my drive subscription based on my AI subscriptions

Sure I get gemini for free now for a year since I have bought a pixel, but I have no intention to renew, I'll likely just leech of the ones my employer pays for

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Re:Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems by mminer237 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:27AM (#46899976)
When YouTube is replacing translations with AI-generated ones or if Drive is using all your personal documents as training data, that can definitely drive people away.
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