Negligent. Big Tech has been negligent in their characterizing AI, influencing business leaders, destroying jobs anyway because of the negative zeitgeist, and now they're saying that they may have been wrong. In the mean time we all know that AI isn't going to wash our cars or plant a garden or mow the lawn for the common man, nor is it necessarily the best solution for lots of jobs out there, but they're going to push it anyway. In the mean time the institutional investors are going to continue to push the AI hype so that they can foist off all of the so-far-accumulated debt to the smaller investors because the big boys already know that they want out. They're also starting to realize that spending millions of dollars on "AI tokens" may not have been the smartest move for their companies and clients, but they still want out, and they'll still lie through their teeth to make sure that someone else buys their AI "junk bonds" so that they can be made whole again. Garbage in, Sam Altman out. But my key point here is negligence. They have been negligent and they are still untrustworthy.

BMW wants to charge you a monthly subscription for seat warmers for a car you already bought once. Maybe Meta can charge you for wearing pants as sort of a "protection racket". Zipper access will cost you an extra $7 per deployment when you need it though. "Nice pants you got there. It would be a SHAME if they were to get wet." -- Utterly ridiculous, decidedly unneeded and definitely unwanted.

The ENTIRE AI ECOSYSTEM is FOUNDED on MASSIVE COPYRIGHT THEFT AND FRAUD! How dare they?!? (That was satire for the humor-impared.)

And this is yet another example of why data sovereignty is so important for Europe, Australia, Japan, and pretty much the rest of the world. Even CloudFlare knows the AI leader-wannabees are less than reputable, less than honorable, and not worth trusting.

So..., pay three times as much for less capable brains that are assisted by AI for about the same tangible output than your regular software engineer? Sounds like The American Way. ...Or a crutch. But hey!, with AI around to assist all of those young minds in cheating on their exams, they won't know much about the network, the transactional layer, data structures, databases, or software engineering in general, so they won't mind cleaning the bathrooms part time either because, "hey, it's a job, man". (But their AI assistant won't be helping them clean the bathrooms. 'Pretty sure of that.)

I remember Volkswagen doing pretty much the same thing back in 1973-74 with the VW Thing. "Customize it. Make it your own." I hope it finds its niche.

Why can't Yves be more like Claude?

It was good while it lasted, but you can't "enshitify" any more efficiently or completely than the Fox brand enshitifies. I wonder how long it will take before I have to start buying different hardware?

Google says it won't be evil. Will renege later when it becomes too expensive to carry out their initial stated intentions....

Douchy BSA wonk doesn't like the EU guarding the golden goose a little bit more carefully these days. Problem is, they need to. Most American businesses are not trustworthy and dont subscribe to any sort of legal framework or ethos that MAKES them trustworthy, so here we are. You do you, EU.

American big tech is untrustworthy at its core. In the boardroom, in the back room, and in the data center. They have no guard rails, no good law (at the present) that makes them play nice. I think that not just Europe needs to be looking at digital sovereignty. Japan, Australia, Canada, are you listening? Most of the big tech companies CAN'T be trusted, so now it's time to start rolling your own, so to speak. Good luck.

...the same standard garbage that many, many companies before them have done to try to figure out where they can "add value" (meaning make more money doing exactly what they're doing now) without bothering to innovate again. Think AVG, Avira, MalwareBytes, Office, blah blah blah. More benign or useless features masquerading as a face lift while their memory footprint quadruples ...or worse. Microsoft has been re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic since Windows NT got a bump from v3.51 and Windows ME hit the scene. This is just another one of those. And I'll be turning most of that crap off so that the stupid thing is usable again because I don't want their "personalization". I'm surprised they haven't crowed about adding AI features yet.

I am getting SO tired of hearing the stories about the excesses of AI. OpenAI wants all the water and all the power and all the data centers and all the capital markets (ALL of them, ALL $5 TRILLION) in investments so that they can make a thing that's going to cost every man, woman, and child on this planet $550-ish a month AT A MINIMUM, just so they can break even. Microsoft wants all the things. nVidia wants all the things. Apple just wants to borrow all the things from someone else who knows how to do it evidently. The Magnificent Seven want all the things. By my count the whole AI ecosystem wants something on the order of 25xGDP of the entire planet for the next 10 to 25 years to make their aspirations a reality. And I'm tired of it. Imagine sitting in your hovel waiting for AI Power And Water to turn on your power for a couple of hours each day so that you can charge your phone so that you can use their AI agents. It's disgusting and perverse. So why do we keep tolerating this kind of talk? I CAN'T WAIT until the financial idiots come crashing down to reality.

Someone finally said the quiet part out loud. And nVidia's software underpinnings come from Silicon Graphics / SGI back in the day. Can you say, "OpenCUDA"?

American tech companies in general (and the huge tech companies in particular, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and the "Magnificent Seven" AI companies) have all proven that they don't deserve your trust. Europe, Canada, Australia, ...all of South America..., you all need to be paying attention and separating your church and state from our "state", because our state is pretty f***ed up at this point. And the federal government in the United States will never try to bring these companies to heal. So, impose fines and restrictions where you think necessary. They're not going to limit themselves for you, or act in any sort of honorable way. I wish we could apologize for their behaviour but, honestly, we suffer under their stupid and greedy yoke as well. GDPR it, Europe. Get serious about it.

Honestly, Sam Altman and company do not deserve your trust at this point. Bogus company valuations built on Intellectual Property and Copyright theft should have been your first clue. Same goes for most of the other Magnificent Seven in general. It's funny that Anthropic is issuing Claude take-downs for a product that was trained on the rest of the internet predominately without permission. "Theft and infringement for me, but not for thee."