John Oliver on AI chatbots: ‘Behind that machine is a corporation trying to extract a monthly fee from you’
Posted by mlg1981
John Oliver on AI chatbots: ‘Behind that machine is a corporation trying to extract a monthly fee from you’
Posted by mlg1981
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Yes! Take my monthly fee!
# AI chatbots on John Oliver: ‘Behind Last Week Tonight is a corporation trying to extract a monthly fee from you’
Hardly the most article worthy he said this episode
That’s the thing about these chatbots that never sat well with me.
For years we had stuff like Wolfram Alpha and these ChatBots just seem like enshittified versions of that with excessive therapy speak to sound wise and insanely toxic levels of encouragement so you get hooked on that dopamine release you feel every time it validates one of your stupid ass ideas.
Almost like those stories you hear of guys falling in love with strippers at the club and just wanting to use them as a therapist as opposed to a Fleshlight.
These techbros managed to slap the AI buzzwords on it like they did back in the OG Dot Com Boom so all the tech inept people would eat it and get hooked on it just like they did with Candy Crush and FarmVille back in the day.
And now they have all that personal data they’ve been harvesting on you in the years since Candy Crush and FarmVille were first big.
In true infomercial host style, they introduced a problem by dividing us with social media platforms with arbitrary character limits so we had to learn how to condense all our opinions to these stupid bite sized chunks. Now they are “solving” it, by selling us Chatbot mirrors to be our friend since real people are just so god damned needy. Fucking Energy Vampires, amirite?
And good luck pointing any of this shit out, now that they’ve conditioned us to have these 140 character opinions, people see a “Wall of Text” like this and get all anxious like someone just plopped the entire Game Of Thrones series on their lap and said “You’ve got 24 hours”.
Don’t I have to pay a monthly fee to see his show
I am dumping my wallet out because these corporations are providing an amazing product.
Such a well researched & written episode! His writing staff is top tier
America is uniquely designed to extract wealth from its residents.
I’m currently paying for Claude, but it hardly feels like an upgrade from the free version. In some ways, it feels worse. I still run out of time and the weekly limit on the premium version meant that I couldn’t even use it for four days during the first week. They’ve really dropped the ball on its commercialisation. I will not be paying for a second month.
so says the man on HBO.
I mean, better a monthly fee for a premium service than ads.