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cs702 ◴[] No.44480036[source]
Your may agree or disagree with the OP, but this passage is spot-on:

"I don’t want AI customer service—but I don’t get a choice.

I don’t want AI responses to my Google searches—but I don’t get a choice.

I don’t want AI integrated into my software—but I don’t get a choice.

I don’t want AI sending me emails—but I don’t get a choice.

I don’t want AI music on Spotify—but I don’t get a choice.

I don’t want AI books on Amazon—but I don’t get a choice."

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brookst ◴[] No.44480166[source]
It’s not spot on. Buying and using all of these products is a choice.

The last is especially egregious. I don’t want poorly-written (by my standards) books cluttering up bookstores, but all my life I’ve walked into bookstores and found my favorite genres have lots of books I’m not interested in. Do I have some kind of right to have stores only stock products that I want?

The whole thing is just so damn entitled. If you don’t like something, don’t buy it. If you find the presence of some products offensive in a marketplace, don’t shop there. Spotify is not a human right.

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1. fnordpiglet ◴[] No.44480276[source]
I actually use the AI books that litter kindle unlimited to teach my daughter how to differentiate and be more sophisticated. I think a feature of all this is it inculcates a lot of people to AI spew. If it were isolated to the elite and the unscrupulous alone people would be a lot more vulnerable. By saturating the world with it, people get a true choice by being able to recognize it when they see it and avoid the output. It’s not like all our surfaces are not covered in enshittification as it is, another dose of it won’t make it meaningfully worse. And I know a lot of non English speakers that really appreciate the AI writing assistants built into email, the ai summaries built into search. Assuming no one finds them beneficial because it litters an already littered experience is a bit close minded. Many people otherwise challenged in some way. Summaries help dyslexics get through otherwise intractable walls of text, multi modal glasses help the vision impaired, witting assistants help bilingual workers level the playing field. Just because these don’t apply to you doesn’t mean it’s bothersome. (Now should you be able to disable it? Maybe, but as the author points out that’s a product choice made for financial reasons and there’s a market of products that make a different choice - don’t like google? Don’t feel so entitled that every service be free and pay for kagi)

Probably no one enjoys AI books though. I did my best at devils advocate on that above.

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2. t0bia_s ◴[] No.44481186[source]
- Summaries help dyslexics get through otherwise intractable walls of text.

Politicians often use AI to summarise proposals and amendments to the laws. And later vote based on those summaries. It's incredible how artifical bureaucracy is driven by artifical intelligence. And how citizens don't care to follow artificial laws that ruins humanity.