Agreed, it’s not completely devoid of value, but it’s definitely not saving me any super meaningful time.

There’s some labor efficiency but I would be really surprised if it even got to an hour a week in productivity gains.

I have copilot at work and honestly it’s not worth the price.

The number of times it has created grossly inaccurate meeting notes or summary items basically means I can’t trust it to be shared with someone who wasn’t there, so it’s mostly just there as a roll the dice memory jogger for participants.

The components embedded in office apps like PowerPoint are absolutely useless, and that’s where I really wanted it to help.

This is the buried lede that’s really concerning I think.

Their goal is to create AI agents that are indistinguishable from humans and capable of convincing people to hold certain positions.

Some time in the future all online discourse may be just a giant AI fueled tool sold to the highest bidders to manufacture consent.