I got tired of Google shoving AI down my throat in yet another place in my phone.
I’m surprised it even gave me the choice to “report and block”.
Glad they didn’t have the usual “Maybe later” button and you have a means to block it out completely.
For now.
I hate how “Maybe later” has replaced “No. Don’t ask me again.”
Enshitification at its best.
My pet peeve is m$ changing “My computer” to “This computer”. It’s no longer yours lol.
Do you know how many users on tech support calls thought the tech was talking about their own computer instead of the user’s? Or would just brainbreak into repeatedly yelling “it’s not my computer it’s my job’s/child’s/dog’s computer”?
Install Linux Mint and take it back
The other day, I asked Meta AI how to deactivate it from WhatsApp. It recommended me to use a third party WhatsApp client. I always thought this was not allowed, but if meta itself recommends me this I guess it’s OK.
Meanwhile I asked in my native language and it started typing out the way to do it, then edited the message to say something like “I can’t speak that language yet”.
Unfortunately after screenrecording and reading it back, the setting it speaks of does not exist.
Is this really what the non-FOSS android experience has become nowadays!? AI chatbots in your messages app? This seems absolutely miserable. I think I finally understand why there are so many iOS users out there.
Apple has so much bloat, crapware like AI GenMoji don’t even play dumb lol
Convenient to leave out Apple it’s working on AI (Apple Intelligence) too. I don’t think any big company is safe from the hype train.
Is Apple Intelligence even real? I don’t have any apple product myself but my parents have iphones and sometimes I use their ipad and I’ve never seen it or heard anyone talk about it IRL. Pretty sure it was just a prank/marketing trick
It’s only on the latest iphone, I don’t remember which iPads, and only the m-series macs. So far from what I’ve seen it’s not as aggressively annoying as Gemini with the chat app messages.
You can also turn off every AI feature with a single toggle in Settings, and it lets you choose whether to enable it during device setup. For now, at least.
Ah I see, makes sense. Thanks!
I actually don’t hate AI, but I’m a firm believer in everyone’s right to opt out if they don’t want it, and I hope companies will learn to respect that. If they don’t, feel free to spam their support hotline with complaints.
I’m a firm believer in leave my shit the fuck alone, and make all your stupid fuck services as OPT IN instead of forcing your trash upon everyone for only the smarter Individuals to opt out so they can falsely claim their services are used by the majority when unreality it’s used by next to nobody and just pisses people off.
