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I don't want any of this crap. We need to push for the right to opt out of AI features. All of this garbage should be opt in.
by cons0le 1y ago
I don't want any of this crap. We need to push for the right to opt out of AI features. All of this garbage should be opt in.
- salomonk_mur 1y agoYou don't want automatic browsing of tedious tasks? I really do.
- brazukadev 1y agolike what, reading & commenting on HN?
- robofanatic 1y agoI certainly don’t want AI to buy groceries for me while I’m “busy” doing something else.
- smileysteve 1y agoIt's like using Alexa to shop, or when an Amazon ad comes on it and saves to the cart, only your order has a delivery cost and it's perishable
- reaperducer 1y agoReminds me of the one-button Amazon magnets that you'd stick to the refrigerator. Press the "Gatorade" button, and Gatorade shows up at the front door the next day. Except that it might cost you $2.49, or it might cost $12.88. There was no way of knowing beforehand. (Those things were awesome tech, BTW. You'd program it with your phone via the equivalent of an acoustic modem.)
- adrianmonk 1y agoI wouldn't mind help with grocery orders. I like to check which apples are on special and maybe buy a different variety from normal depending on the price. My grocery store makes this really tedious because they don't have a feature to sort by price per pound. So I have a stupid ritual where I ctrl-F "($0." and repeatedly ctrl-G to see all the apples under $1/pound. Then I do it again with ctrl-F "($1." to see the ones in the $1-$2/pound price range. And there are several other products with similar annoying processes. If an AI could just do that for me, it would save me time. I don't actually think present-day AI would do it reliably enough, but the concept sounds fine.
- robofanatic 1y agoI wonder how the economics will work for this? How will the AI service providers make money off of it?
- reaperducer 1y agoMy grocery store makes this really tedious because they don't have a feature to sort by price per pound. So I have a stupid ritual where I ctrl-F "($0." and repeatedly ctrl-G to see all the apples under $1/pound. Then I do it again with ctrl-F "($1." to see the ones in the $1-$2/pound price range. And there are several other products with similar annoying processes. If an AI could just do that for me, it would save me time. I just look at the flyers that come in the Sunday newspaper. Problem solved in under 30 seconds with near-zero effort. Cheaper than an AI subscription, too.
- mort96 1y agoAutomating tedious tasks is great, as long as it's reliable. We know how to build reliable integrations and reliable automations. Making chat bots a page and click buttons it thinks will do the right thing is never gonna be reliable.
- cons0le 1y agoNot if it's not local. I don't want my browser to be an automated snitch for palantir
- donkeylazy456 1y agoonly when im in need.
- m4rtink 1y agoRather, this should be opt-in from the start with serious disclaimers what it does and what it has access to.
- nashashmi 1y agoIt is like the rug is pulled beneath our feet. When I was in college I could get a handle of what stuff is worth sharing and what isn’t. Now all of my data from before has become a liability.
- j_timberlake 1y agoIt's been like 18 months of Google saying they're putting genAI into all their services, it's 100% your fault if this is a surprise for you. "We need to push for the right to opt out of AI features." You've had access to Firefox for over 20 years.