A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
This was exactly my thought when MS finally decided to force Copilot to be licensed. They have literally inserted it into every nook and cranny they can so far and the only conclusion I can come to is that they royally f'ed up. Like they invested so much in it and likely aren't seeing anything profitable. In a way, it satisfies me to see them act so desperate for something so futile but I don't want it to continue. It's clear what damages they have caused and it's not worth it.
Canva just announced the next generation of Affinity. Instead of giving us Linux support, while Affinity is “free” now they crammed in a bunch of AI to upsell you on a subscription.
Yeah... we kinda saw that coming ever since that first email from Serif about the acquisition...
Is there anything out there now that's comparable? I've still got v1 and v2 suites and installers, but... that'll only last as long as the twats at Canva keep the auth servers going.
Exactly.
AI is definitely in a bubble atm but its the same as the .com bubble. The market will crash, places its not useful it will be removed, places it's useful it will be kept. Its defiantly useful but not to the degree its promoted at at the moment.
Its also that we haven't yet got to the point where a couple dominant market strategies have taken hold. So its just everyone throwing as much shit as they can at the wall and we are yet to see whats gonna stick.
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They want it to be the next step in controlling and raping the masses. That's why they're shoving it down our throats.
I suggest keeping your mouth closed tightly, and not engaging in any way with it. We should all see these early reports of the most vulnerable amongst us becoming obsessed with their AI relationships as a huge warning--red banners and klaxons sounding. Run! RUN! Run far away and stay there.
I don't know if the printer analogy is a good one but I'm down with what you're saying. The rise of GUI in the early days really did push printing in extreme ways
It definitely feels buzzword-like & vague. Kind of like how Web3 Blockchain XYZ was slapped on to a lot of stuff
You werent around during the iphones launch or the beginnings of the internet. Also yes printers did the same thing with ink jets and how everyone needed to print out their digital pictures.
I predate both of those events by multiple decades lol.
Printers were well established even on the Trash-80 I grew up with. The bloatware drivers aren't really what I'm talking about. I suppose Clippy could be considered prior art to the whole "shoving AI in your face" but at the time I was a WordPerfect fanboy.
it isnt, the fact they are shoveling into every tech, retail included, means its about to burst. they are just stemming the bleeding so they recoup some losses.
Warning : I think AI in the current hype form, so commercial GenAI and LLM, is absolutely bullshit. The result is just bad and resources required is absolutely ridiculous, and maybe worst than those two combined (which is already enough to want to reject en masse) it is structured in order to create dependencies on very few actors.
Yet... (you saw that coming!) it's not because 99.99% is bad that suddenly the average consumer leverages the less than .01% left properly.
What they (OpenAI, Claude, M$, NVIDIA, Google, Meta, etc) are looking for is a product/market fit. They do have a product (arguable) and a market (millions if not billions of users of their different other products) with even a minuscule fraction of people trying to use their new AI-based tool... and yet nobody actually knows what the "killer app" truly is.
They are investing everything they don't spend on actual R&D or infrastructure in finding out ... what it's actually for. They have no clue.
It needs to be shoved in your face so they can get your face in the database.