Or someone knows what a freak of nature his phone addiction makes him, and is desperately trying to feel more normal by projecting his failings onto everyone.

Probably the same way whack-a-doodle-doo nutjob Avi Loeb did. Go to Harvard, act crazy, and voila!

If it's an internet enabled microwave attached to an AI, you're causing trauma to the advertising company behind it by denying them the opportunity to shove more ads down your throat. Does that count?

That is, at best, a secondary goal. Their goal in this is to get rid of employees, which are the second biggest cost in a retail operation.

And they'll regret it, because it will drive people away even faster than the poorly trained employees pushing "this month's special" too hard. When you scream at employees, they stop. AI won't. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, even after you're dead!

You say that like you believe that's and unintended consequence.

Who wants this? The competitors of anyone using it. Because the more our competitors use crap like this, the more of their customers will come to us.

This past year has been rough for retail (which is why so many companies are looking to cut costs with magic AI pixies like this), but we've doubled down on real customer service, and my end of year bonus was a month and a half's pay (on top of the quarterly bonuses that have average about half of that each)).

So I sincerely hope that all our competitors hitch their wagon to this boondoggle. I really do.

Ads in the free version? They can lick my balls.

Lots of people have visions of things that aren't here. They're called "hallucinations," and it's the one human ability that AI has mastered fully.

Perhaps that joke about Zuck being a robot isn't entirely a joke after all.

Privacy concerns aside (and they're very real), every time we've looked at any kind of cloud vs locally owned equipment, it has not only cost more, but a lot more, like twice as much, over the life of the equipment.

It's simply a bad deal.

Anybody who is a poor enough credit risk that the banks won't give them a credit card at 10% shouldn't have credit cards at all, because they are a poor credit risk living beyond their means.

When a place has a record high temperature, it's because of climate change. When a place has a record low temperature, it's just weather. Every. Time.

This is why so many people don't take the issue seriously.

I wonder if that includes people turning it off. That is an interaction, after all. And since there are monthly updates that tend to turn it back on, you have to turn it off monthly.

Does that count?

What makes you believe you'll have any choice?

Sadly, "they" are the mullahs, lunatics, rabid dog clerics, and schutzstaffel.

You realize, don't you, that just changes who is spying on you, not that you're being spied on.

Don't you?