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[-] WiseWoodchuck@lemmy.world 99 points 3 months ago

We don't "get" tech anymore. Tech happens to/at us. We are already getting AI generated ads. Where are the AI based ad blockers?

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Already happened. It died because it turns out the AI was funneling all of your browsing data to the servers running the AI instead

GPT-AdBlocker for Chrome promises to block all ads, including ads in videos - gHacks Tech News - https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/19/gpt-adblocker-for-chrome-promises-to-block-all-ads-including-ads-in-videos/

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

They'd be useless. Unless you trained it yourself there would 100% be a whitelist you couldn't see, or it'd be gobbling up all your data.

[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 98 points 3 months ago

to be fair, Microsoft is also shoving Copilot down our throats. They keep adding unremovable Copilot buttons to Outlook.com

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I would say that neither corporation forcing AI on us is fair by any stretch

[-] Bongles@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

They replaced the "M365" app icon with "M365 copilot" and the copilot icon on android the other day. I Uninstalled it.

It's nice to be able to use copilot in some of these apps, it is shit to be forced to have it everywhere.

[-] BattleGrown@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It is one of the few useful usecases tho. It can summarize meetings if transcribe is on.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago

But can it summarise them correctly?

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[-] wreckingball4good@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Oof, luckily I don't have to use o365 at work anymore.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago

Google was "cool" 2 decades ago... or before they combined both monetization (through ad) with power (through monopoly) they inexorably transformed EXACTLY to Microsoft the same way Facebook/Meta did the Google playbook.

Those huge tech corporations are pulled by the market to follow the same, sadly successful, strategy playbook and keep no uniqueness.

Google has been the new Microsoft for years already but through careful marketing consumers somehow believe they aren't.

[-] Malek061@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Google is slipping. Duck duck go is a better search engine. There are better mail systems as well. Meta is done as well.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Some of my non-techie friends were complaining about how rubbish Google search is now and I suggested Duck Duck Go. They couldn't get past the name. I know it's based on some childhood game in the US but it makes no sense to anyone here in the UK.

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[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

When the leaked internal video came out about Google’s real vision, everyone said it is fake. It does not look that fake now.

[-] karpintero@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

Apple Intelligence too. Thankfully you can still disable it

[-] Gingernate@programming.dev 34 points 3 months ago
[-] Toribor@corndog.social 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is probably the most 'old man yells at cloud' thing about me but I hate voice assistants and they have yet to work consistently enough to be worth my time.

It is completely insane to me that something simple like "Add ____ to the grocery list" has worked and stopped working multiple times for years now. How hard is that to get right? Cannot believe such a simple action is so inconsistent.

[-] MrTHXcertified@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

My Google smart speaker used to integrate with my shopping list app. The loss of that integration and other features makes it basically a glorified white noise machine now.

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's my biggest gripe with Gemini; it's not a proper replacement for Google Assistant and yet it's still treated as such.

Feels like Google took at least two steps back when it comes to Gemini on Pixel devices...

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

I love the dedicated piracy folder lmao

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Or I ask to go to Costco, and where Assistant previously would route me to the nearest one, Gemini sends me to one 80 miles away

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[-] truxnell@infosec.pub 32 points 3 months ago

When AI appeared in my android text messaging app was the day I relented and installed GrapheneOS. Between Graphene and Bazzite on laptop/desktop, and NixOS for homelab/self hosted tools,.couldn't be happier to be free from all big tech BS while still getting tech benefits on my own terms

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

I'm being serious with this comment. In no way have I felt like Google has forced Gemini on me. I barely notice it exists. Can anyone give me examples?

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 months ago

They’ve stuffed it into every page in Google cloud and workspace.

I tried it in sheets one time and it literally made up fake data for my analysis. Never trusting that again.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago

It "messaged" me in Google Messages today introducing itself and how it could summarize text messages on my phone for me

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 19 points 3 months ago

if a human sends me a text long enough to benefit from a summary that's a human that is being removed from my contacts.

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

Gemini 'messaged' me in google messages introducing itself a couple months ago. Just appeared like a normal text conversation with any other contact, but as soon as you click on it you're presented with a wall of T&Cs.

Deleted the 'conversation' and it's stayed gone; though there's an option for it in settings.

The only other place I've see it is an on-screen reminder every time I use Google Assistant. (usually just triggering home automatons)

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

That's why.

I don't use Google messages, don't use the Google Assistant... am barely aware that Gemini exists.

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[-] igNorrinRadd@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

My job uses the Google suite and it feels like it’s gotten a bit excessive recently. Just this week I have gotten multiple popups on my work email and in Docs and Sheets. It has been present in Chat for a few months.

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[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They "remind me" every time I use assistant on my phone with an on screen message. But that's about it and though I find it annoying I don't feel forced.

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[-] pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

My power button on my phone now opens Gemini... Every damn time it's bumped. Press to wake the phone? Oh hello Gemini

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[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Same here tbh. I havea university google suite account and I've never noticed it there. I also use Google messages, and there was a button for it by default, but it was easily disabled.

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[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

there is nothing forcing you to keep using google though

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago
[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

All of it is. Or pushing copilot into all Microsoft products like anyone is using this shit.

[-] hactar42@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Every time I've opened an Office app this week it has given me some copilot welcome screen and opened it's own sidebar. I tried to use it to proofread a word doc and got prompted to purchase a license. So they basically just filled 1/3 of my screen with an ad.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Problem with Gemini is that is sucks badly in comparison with more mature solutions.

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

Where are they putting it, chrome? Just use Firefox instead.

[-] TheTurner@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

I use gmail at work and I see the logo in chats, email, drive, docs, and I'm not sure where else. Its annoying when I'm typing an email and it tries to get me to use it. I don't know how to get rid of it either.

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[-] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm slowly moving away from Gmail and Google Docs/Drive, but in the meantime entering this into uBlock Origin seems to help:

mail.google.com##div[jscontroller][jsaction]:has(> span > button[aria-label="Try Gemini"])

drive.google.com##div[jscontroller][jsaction]:has(> span > button[aria-label="Try Gemini"])

docs.google.com##div[jscontroller][jsaction]:has(> span > button[aria-label="Try Gemini"])

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

I tried to ask it how I could remove it, Gemini told me that in order for me to help it I needed to active some of the "smart" features I didn't have active on my account, essentially helping do the opposite. It follows the ever increasing practice of trying to shove basically illegal behavior into "it's just the algorithm, bro, there was no intent!"

[-] dorumon@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Is it bad that I stopped using Google docs and plan on moving to OpenOffice instead?

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I'd recommend libreoffice, because oracle also kinda sucks.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago

Kinda?

I view Oracle as worse than Google.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Worse but less powerful

[-] FlyingCrow@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Why would that be bad?

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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Every Google Drive action I do now is shifted over 20% for ✨

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

They're laying down the road and try to get you to use it. The toll booths come soon enough when every alternative gets blocked as much as possible.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The good news is that this may cure my laziness. I've been preparing to leave most of google service for a while now.

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