@JackFrostNCola - eviltoast
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Cake day: May 23rd, 2025

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  • Caveat: Anyone who has been scrutinising ‘AI’.

    Something i often forget is the vast majority of the population doesnt care about technology, privacy, the mechanics of LLMs as much as i do and I pay attention to.
    So most people read/hear/watch stories of how great it is and how clever AI can do simple things for them so its easy to see how they think its doing a lot more ‘thought’ logic work than it really is, other than realistically it being a glorified word predictor.










  • Microsoft literally pulled this exact trick earlier this year. Gave me an email with a ‘your subscription is increasing from $100 to $150 this year so we can offer “AI” features’ and i was like ‘oh those exact features that forced me to roll back to a 6 month old version of office to get rid of because you cant just ‘toggle’ it off in settings, and specifically emailed you to tell you this, those features you mean?’. Turns out if you go to unsubscribe they offer you a ‘budget plan’ (or however they worded it) which doesnt include “AI” features for wow, only the same price it was already paying to get me to stay. What an offer.
    I was doing the right thing by them but if your gunna take the piss mate, im putting on the hat and taking to the seas.