Reminds me of my favorite; Sam Altman suggested using Open AI to create a podcast based on your kids' interests to listen to on the way to school. The top comment was "Just talk to your kids."

Hey surveillance device that I but no one else around me opted into, what was that list of specials that the waiter had memorized and just told me? I dont want to simply ask him to repeat it.

So, now the waitress can bring a pre-recorded presentation, play it a 10 times the speed, and the customer can read it from their watch. Saves everybody some time.

Or... They could open the menu card. Also on their watch if they insist.

Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.

No, that's too stupid, that can't possibly be real.

This is the tech we get when the people developing it are socially awkward.

Ironically. When I was in the Nordics many moons ago and rang up the hostel with my beginner English to ask a question, the receptionist rattled off the answer at 300 words per minute, of which I understood about none. Upon me asking her to repeat, she did in fact repeat, at the same speed and with the same result. I thanked her, hung up the phone and to this day have no idea what she said.

You know what people with hearing problems do actively use when they can, especially in their non-native languages? Subtitles.

If my 70% deaf parents had this, they wouldn't use it (much like their hearing aids)

Such a great example of the C O N S U M E mindset. Does the TV have the features the person wants? Is it the right size or is taking it home all that matters? Is a deal better than the regular list price for a TV that does what they need?

Nope, just 'can I spend money'?

There's absolutely a kind of person that does that. My ex's father bought three vacuum cleaners because they were on a good sale and he figured someone he knew would need a vacuum eventually.

I would believe something like "hey AI, which of the massage parlors near me are really handjob stores?"

I have impulse bought a tv, at the store because it was marked down due to being returned after getting a bonus. I have no idea about just doing it randomly while out.

AHHHH IM GONNA CONSOOOOOM!!!11

To be fair, a not insignificant portion of that ad's target audience is probably considering impulse leasing a Volvo and showing off all of its gadgets to their friends.

Maybe he needed a tv for the boot

Is GET YOUR FREE TVS still funny?

To be fair, people were probably already Google searching this before AI was around.

Hey Gemini, experience this tragic irony for me

Hey Gemini, can you fuck this guy's wife?

To be fair, the job one is justified, it's useless to make a good resume and then everyone just scan it with AI automatically and never read it

And, they all respond by using Gemini.

Might as well not even be in the loop, just let the machines talk to each other.

It is created in a couple of minutes and if it scams even a single rube, they will make a profit.

Scams actually work better when they have obvious mistakes. It helps weed out people that might figure out the scam before they've handed over their money, saving the scammers time and effort and making the scam more efficient.

They're targeting a vulnerable population. Grifters are going to grift and things are easier than ever for them. If you make it too hard to return and most people keep your crap, especially if its $20 or less. It would be nice if they found grifts that didn't clog up our landfills and thrift stores but I guess this is better than all the identity theft. I also can't wait to see what this decades hot new MLM is. Its the selling courses on selling courses bs thats hot now.

The difference is that one is for attracting money, and the other is written by lawyers.

definitely has the ability to cure cancer

But we won't let it do that while it generates nudes for pedophiles.

Raid: Shadow Legends

Couldn't block that one, could ya bub?

Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they're doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There's always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be "actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!" with a million "don't tell, now Google is gonna patch!" replies. I wish I was joking.

If you don't use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think "it's not that bad", install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it's really "not that bad", lmao.

Install them on your parents' devices. Your grandparents'. Siblings. Friends.

My girlfriends child is learning in school how to use chatgpt. They are heavily encouraged to use it to control their own text and whatever. She's 8. She's leqrning to use a tool ahe will never ever be allowed to in the future.

watching TV

You guys watch TV?

I'm old and alone, but there's no fucking way I'm going to talk a machine. Because, then I'd be old, alone, AND pitiful.

I heard a podcast (maybe This American Life) that spent time with a woman out in the sticks, physically no longer able to be active, all kids many hours away, who was given one of these by her local fire department. She had been scoring lower and lower on cognitive tests for several years, and after getting this thing she reversed that trend. It was creepy, and her kids didn't like it, but it was there and her kids were not, and it clearly had improved her quality of life. It's sad she didn't have human connections in her daily life, but given her circumstances, the thing had upside.

Also sad is this is one of the few things ChatGPT would actually be good at. It's basically what it was designed for.

Only a fool would think AI data centers are to help Timmy with an essay, Gertrude decide on a gift for her grandkids or Cameron the moron write a professional response at work that doesn't sound like it was written by 6th grader...

...it's all about mass surveillance. Always has been.

I used Claude terminal and it immediately identified that i had a service that constantly sent small packets to my headset and since all packets have to use the smallest ones it was crackling sometimes due to latency

Fized that and set the minimum to a reasonable amount

It had its uses

I could live without a cellphone. But since AI got popular, it isn't as easy to keep up at some subjects as it was before (since everybody at our highschool cheated with AI - at least I did most of the non-annoying stuff myself), which means I had to do more work.

Like in the early 2000s when certain websites would copy paste a half a dictionary onto the site description so google would put them in every search result despite not being relevant.

Yeah, sweet old grandmas already know how to cook, they don't need AIs.

One day, I need to recreate a dish my late grandma did. Probably simple, but very nostalgic at personal level. I don't think AIs are much help here.

Or the ones where the knitting grandmas are asking it for advice. Are you kidding me? First off Gemini is the most shit thing I've ever seen when it comes to knitting/crocheting. Second, at that age, either you're a repository for the craft already or you are looking for community and will be knitting aside these walking yarn encyclopedias in a knitting circle.

I solved this problem by eating the same three meals that I make myself every day.

The first step was recognizing that food is not entertainment, so as long as it meets my nutritional needs, it doesn't need to vary. Boredom doesn't enter into it, because it's not entertainment, the same way I don't get bored with taking a shower or getting dressed, or any of the other things I do in the course of the day. Most things we do are not entertainment, and when I made eating one of them, that solved many issues for me.

It will never cease to amaze me how you can ask some people, "what do you want for lunch?" And their answer 90% of the time is, "I don't know, I haven't thought about it."

You eat three times a day. Every single day. Your whole. Entire. Life. Every single day, I wake up and make a plan that revolves around my three meals. The idea of not doing that makes about as much sense to me as wiping before you poop.

What a blessed live you must have if that's the hardest thing you do...

What model are you running? And any MCP server youre using with it?

I don’t think “bad” would be the preferred descriptor of the criticisms.

Until it hallucinates and you end up needing surgery.

Have you tried adding mercury to your soup? It adds all the iron you need to be healthy for the rest of your life!