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Is there a single big company out there that sanely has not decided to ride this "AI" wave? People being pushed stupid features that no one has ever needed nor

Is there a single big company out there that sanely has not decided to ride this "AI" wave? People being pushed stupid features that no one has ever needed nor asked for? It's Clippy's revenge and you can't get rid of it this time? Microsoft really deserves ton of prizes for ruining so many products.

riffraff 2y ago
amazon? I mean they have some data center stuff, but amazon-the-website does not seem infected with artificial idiocy yet.
- RavlaAlvar 2y ago
  What are you talking about, they added a chat bot on amazon.com
  - riffraff 2y ago
    I believe it must be US-only then, I don't see it in my european amazon.
- ok123456 2y ago
  Amazon has its own AI, "rufas," plastered on the site.
  - datadrivenangel 2y ago
    And for a while it would helpfully generate python code for you!
- TheRealSteel 2y ago
  Product pages on Amazon now have AI review summaries. I like it in theory, but the cynical part of me is suspicious they're somehow using it to skew things positive.
- righthand 2y ago
  Aws docs has a chat bot.
  - rurp 2y ago
    They even had a very Microsoft style rollout for it, where a huge modal for the chat bot would pop up and cover most of the page every single time you went to the docs, with no way to disable it. I tried it out with a very simple database sorting question, and got a completely wrong answer. I don't think I've used it since.
    - righthand 2y ago
      What was hilarious to me was I tried using it to figure out a niche config. I couldn’t use it because my employer totally locks down permissions. Not going to request bot access any time soon.
larrykubin 2y ago
Not large compared to Microsoft and Amazon, but Nintendo: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creator-on-ai-nintendo-is-going-the-opposite-direction/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creat...
chid 2y ago
I can't think of any other than potentially oil and gas (though they probably use a lot of it in head office type environment).

riffraff 2y ago

amazon? I mean they have some data center stuff, but amazon-the-website does not seem infected with artificial idiocy yet.

RavlaAlvar 2y ago
What are you talking about, they added a chat bot on amazon.com
- riffraff 2y ago
  I believe it must be US-only then, I don't see it in my european amazon.
ok123456 2y ago
Amazon has its own AI, "rufas," plastered on the site.
- datadrivenangel 2y ago
  And for a while it would helpfully generate python code for you!
TheRealSteel 2y ago
Product pages on Amazon now have AI review summaries. I like it in theory, but the cynical part of me is suspicious they're somehow using it to skew things positive.
righthand 2y ago
Aws docs has a chat bot.
- rurp 2y ago
  They even had a very Microsoft style rollout for it, where a huge modal for the chat bot would pop up and cover most of the page every single time you went to the docs, with no way to disable it. I tried it out with a very simple database sorting question, and got a completely wrong answer. I don't think I've used it since.
  - righthand 2y ago
    What was hilarious to me was I tried using it to figure out a niche config. I couldn’t use it because my employer totally locks down permissions. Not going to request bot access any time soon.

larrykubin 2y ago

Not large compared to Microsoft and Amazon, but Nintendo: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creator-on-ai-nintendo-is-going-the-opposite-direction/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creat...

chid 2y ago

I can't think of any other than potentially oil and gas (though they probably use a lot of it in head office type environment).