Microsoft’s 3 billion bet on Copilot is assessed to be a disaster

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

It's really not "short-sighted" or "fanatical" to dislike AI, some of us simply don't see its use cases as being worth its multitude of negative, damaging, and harmful aspects.

Personally, I have never once wanted or needed to use AI, it doesn't benefit me in any way, its net effect has pretty much just been slop shoved in my face 24/7 while prices rise, resources are wasted, corps use it as an excuse to fire people, and everything gets progressively shittier.

From my point of view, it's simply a net negative for society and the world.

Disliking AI is completely acceptable and more than fair.  Using fictional characters as the basis of an argument is not.

I am happy to have an intellectual discussion, but it can't start with made up stories from Hollywood.  

I wouldn't use Skynet as an analogy personally; as I understand it, AI in its current form is unlikely to become the sort of malevolent superintelligence depicted in films like The Terminator.

What worries me more is issues like the enshittification of the internet and economic fallout.