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Most mobile experiences (and macOS desktop) let you select unselectable stuff with OCR. For macOS is by screencap and selecting on preview, for phones in their

Most mobile experiences (and macOS desktop) let you select unselectable stuff with OCR. For macOS is by screencap and selecting on preview, for phones in their respective “ai analysis views” usually long pressing the bottom. I know it’s a silly flow when it could be selectable straight away, just pointing it out.

mastazi 1y ago
I never tried that, thank you!
cons0le 1y ago
This is why technology is becoming garbage. In 2025 instead of copy paste, we fire up a gpu in a datacenter. it feels like "software engineering" is just becoming a BS contest for "how much AI can we shoehorn into everything"
- torben-friis 1y ago
  Not fully disagreeing, but this lack of copypaste is not an intended ai feature. - The “magic ocr thingy” exists for things like taking a picture of the real world and grabbing text from it, or grabbing text from a video from something you saw recorded there. Think translating a foreign sign or whatever. - interfaces have, for unrelated reasons, become more hostile to standard actions like copypaste. As a result people end up having to ocr-scan interfaces with the tool.
- thewebguyd 1y ago
  Some of it is because how people interact with and use tech has changed. Mobile users have completely outpaced laptop/desktop users, and mobile users don't think in terms of files and text, so to them copy & paste is less important. The mythical "average user" moves arbitrary text and data around using screenshots and screen recordings instead of text and files. Yes, it's incredibly inefficient, but I think it's evolved that day because selecting text is a real pain on a small touch screen, and companies have been trying to abstract away any concept of a filesystem for a long time. So you or I might care and be bothered that we can't copy & paste something from UI chrome or content in a "web app" but the average person won't care, they'll just take a screenshot.

mastazi 1y ago

I never tried that, thank you!

cons0le 1y ago

This is why technology is becoming garbage. In 2025 instead of copy paste, we fire up a gpu in a datacenter. it feels like "software engineering" is just becoming a BS contest for "how much AI can we shoehorn into everything"

torben-friis 1y ago
Not fully disagreeing, but this lack of copypaste is not an intended ai feature. - The “magic ocr thingy” exists for things like taking a picture of the real world and grabbing text from it, or grabbing text from a video from something you saw recorded there. Think translating a foreign sign or whatever. - interfaces have, for unrelated reasons, become more hostile to standard actions like copypaste. As a result people end up having to ocr-scan interfaces with the tool.
thewebguyd 1y ago
Some of it is because how people interact with and use tech has changed. Mobile users have completely outpaced laptop/desktop users, and mobile users don't think in terms of files and text, so to them copy & paste is less important. The mythical "average user" moves arbitrary text and data around using screenshots and screen recordings instead of text and files. Yes, it's incredibly inefficient, but I think it's evolved that day because selecting text is a real pain on a small touch screen, and companies have been trying to abstract away any concept of a filesystem for a long time. So you or I might care and be bothered that we can't copy & paste something from UI chrome or content in a "web app" but the average person won't care, they'll just take a screenshot.