Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
  • Kaligalis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17 minutes

    No shit, Sherlock.
    And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
    They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    5 hours

    If they want people addicted to an AI, it’s going to have to be a lot better than fucking Copilot.

    As slop generators go, it’s about the sloppiest.

  • kablez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    My non Linux savvy spouse is currently dual booting Linux Mint because Windows has become so frustrating to use.

    Mint isn’t perfect. We’ve run into a few bugs and shortcomings. But there’s a big difference between dealing with genuine issues in an OS and using one that feels actively hostile and designed to exploit the user.

    If both experiences can be frustrating, why choose the one that’s frustrating by design (unless you absolutely have to) ?

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    … how? They can’t just say it and expect it to happen. People have to want to use it. How, in the absolute shit sauce, could you possibly be addicted to an AI? What even is the goal?

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8 hours

      Yeah every time I get on my laptop it’s a little more unrecognisable and unusable to me. Will be getting in Linux as soon as I get a chance.

      • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        I’ve strongly enjoyed cachyOS. Cue downvotes for this, but I installed ClaudeCode (any other cli would work fine too like opencode etc) and gave it a persistent memory as an OS helper of sorts when I get stuck.

        Probably moronic to quit windows over AI integration and then set up Linux with the exact same vision just in a completely custom way.

        • Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4 hours

          SSDs costing $300 for me. For some reason my current drives refuse to partition. I got an old laptop on it, but it barely works regardless of what OS is on it.

          • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
            5 hours

            A good place to start, if what you do for those two hours a month is just a browser and such, is a live USB with Linux mint (or something like that) and then there is no commitment until you are ready.

  • nectar45@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6 hours

    At this rate I will have to do like Terry Davis and make my OWN minimalistic OS to escape this AI plague.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9 hours

    Gotta produce dopamine for that to happen. Not cortisol.

    • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 hours

      Yeah but one day they will hack it, like every form of advertising and addiction that was pushed on us since tobacco. This is just a new frontier that is unknown right now, like explaining the ridiculous idea of future social media addiction to a user in 2005.

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    That shit should set off alarm bells of all regulators… but we elect people who don’t give a fuck so…

  • stretch2m@infosec.pubEnglish
    13 hours

    I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.

  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15 hours

    Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time’s the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We’ll see what they call number four.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13 hours

      You forgot clippy, but everyone forgets about clippy unless it’s in this exact context. Or it’s Norfolk wizard game.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        Not sure why that had to come on automatically at maximum volume every time, but the number of times I’ve finished backing up and re-imaging a computer at 3 AM, on to have her start hollering at the exact moment my head hits the pillow, is too damn many

    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1 hour

      Is there any fundamental difference between Copilot and Scout, or is it just a straight up rebranding?

      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7 hours

        My impression is that scout is specifically going to be an agentic ai. Agentic ai platforms are supposedly a little more competent than chatbots, but still subject to the same llm chicanery and enormous energy usage.

        It’s hard to compare against copilot because MS has called a ton of distinct things copilot (see the diagram below).

        diagram of different MS products called copilot

    • Pycorax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13 hours

      Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could’ve doubled down on whatads it good but nope.

      • João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)@ciberlandia.pt
        10 hours

        @pycorax I second this, Windows Phone 8.1/10 was a godsend in a world of Android/iPhone duopoly (even if made by Microslop) and Cortana was smart enough to almost do everything you could ask of it (unlike the “couldn’t understand what you said” or “calling Superfun New Toy From China” instead of “Super from Building A” that “AI” assistants of its time said).
        @finalarbiter