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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 4 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cs702 ◴[06 Jul 25 12:09 UTC] 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 ◴[06 Jul 25 12:24 UTC] 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. ikr678 ◴[06 Jul 25 12:39 UTC] No.44480282[source]▶
For consumer pproducts, sure, don't buy them. For people in office based careers, they may not get a choice when their company rolls out copilot, or management decide to buy an ai helpdesk agent, or a vendor pushes ai slop into the next enterprise software version.
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2. brookst ◴[06 Jul 25 12:44 UTC] No.44480315[source]▶
How is that different from not liking other technology choices one’s employer makes? I could write a book about how much I hate our expense tool. But it’s never occurred to me that I am entitled to have a different one.
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3. NilMostChill ◴[06 Jul 25 13:20 UTC] No.44480590[source]▶
Entitled, probably not, able to communicate frustrations and suggest alternative options, absolutely.
4. queenkjuul ◴[06 Jul 25 14:10 UTC] No.44480968[source]▶
You should consider that yes, maybe you are entitled to a better one