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> with a touch of AI It's fascinating even to myself how fast I closed the tab. The annoyance and oversaturation with "ai" is on a level I didn't think was pos
by on_the_train 2y ago
> with a touch of AI
It's fascinating even to myself how fast I closed the tab. The annoyance and oversaturation with "ai" is on a level I didn't think was possible
- msephton 2y agoYet in this case quite useful
- on_the_train 2y agoI doubt it
- msephton 2y agoNo reason to doubt, it can be proved empirically
- CRConrad 2y agoBut in this case, as I understood it, fully optional? (Maybe not, only read it rather cursorily.) So in that case, might be useful anyway. Otherwise, yeah, me too.
- on_the_train 2y agoOptional mitigates, but doesn't completely null the poisoning. People are still very allergic to inclusion of crypto stuff in software (as another example), even if it's optional.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoTbh, it sounds like 'good' AI to me. This isn't putting anyone out of a job and it's apparently optional. What's more, it can be configured to work locally, so that should take care of privacy concerns.
- Anamon 2y agoIt sounds optional and potentially marginally useful. But I understand the OP's reaction. These days, I'm also conditioned to very quickly dismiss something that initially sounded interesting as soon as I spot those two capital letters from the corner of my eye. For me, the sentiment is mostly, if I'm looking for a tool for something, I want it to do exactly that job, and I want to do it precisely. The presence of AI features gives me a gut feeling both of feature bloat, and that "precision" wasn't a major focus behind the application's design.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoOh, I agree 100%. I don't think I'd make use of an auto-tagging feature beyond 'preselect existing tags that occur in the text' which I - not being in Marketing - would hesitate to describe as 'AI'. I would probably disable the feature in this case, though, rather than dismiss the product entirely.