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Not to beat a dead horse but google has now foisted integration of it‘s Gemini AI into basic gmail / drive functionality. Don’t offload your critical faculties to a super computer. Write that email. Use your brain. Every time you feed this thing it will get “better” and you are training it to replace you.
Jan 16, 2025

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propanecowboyCan I use this sign graphic for use elsewhere? It sums up my feelings on the whole thing! 🪧
Jan 17, 2025
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theclack of course.
Jan 17, 2025
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I am so over EVERYTHING having or integrating AI now
Jan 17, 2025
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My free, personal Gmail is respecting my settings with all smart features disabled. Meanwhile the work email that I pay Google for decided Gemini still would be enabled even though I turned it off for all users on the domain, and turned off smart features for my specific account.
Jan 16, 2025
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bee1000 I don’t like or trust any feature that can’t be turned off
Jan 17, 2025
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it's so discouraging to see it everywhere :( i wish there was some sort of browser or browser extension that gets rid of all AI
Jan 16, 2025
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I’m being fully FORCED to use AI on Google Office and it’s SO annoying. I don’t appreciate that after any Google Meets (which SUCKS by the way) that Gemini wants to send me a recap of the meeting. I DON’T WANT GEMINI ANYWHERE NEAR ME! Also, this AI Fiverr GO I keep getting force-fed in my YouTube Ads, that uses individual creators AI to generate content that looks like the content they’d create is absolutely insane and horribly dystopian. What happened to art? What happened to appreciating the human spirit, and learning from our mistakes? Idk, but I’m tired. AI could have been a really genius way for expanding our understanding of important issues, but instead it’s used just for people to honestly be lazy, and also creepy. Weird Note: People falling in love with AI is honestly really tragic. But, as someone who has a grandmother who has repeatedly fallen for scammers due to loneliness, I would rather have her fall in love with AI versus someone who’s trying to get (and has successfully gotten) her bank account information to slowly take money from her and string her along via horribly photoshopped photos and copy & pasted poems found off of google with her name added to seem unique. Just strange to say I’d rather have my grandma fall in love with a robot vs a scammer 😂😂.
May 30, 2025
NOT! No I don't want AI agents to read my emails, reply for me, make decisions for me, slice out parts of my heart and soul and neuter me and make me hollow and super productive all before I wake up in in the morning. Do more! Know less! Produce more! Think less! fart
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nah, i wouldn't use it like that, and i'd strongly recommend that no one does. there have been various pieces written about AI inducing what is essentially religious/spiritual psychosis in people, some of which have even lead to divorce. but, even aside from that, replacing human interaction, companionship or therapy, with a hyper-advanced predictive text chat bot will do nothing but further alienate people, especially under capitalism. i think using it to talk to someone that's deceased isn't quite as bad as the latter, but is still very bad. understanding and coping with mortality is something that humans have been doing the entire time we've existed, and a key part of the way we process death involves not being able to talk to the deceased person anymore. aside from completely removing that aspect of the experience of losing a loved one, what are the ethical implications of this, and how would one even feasibly "get their loved one into the LLM?" would you have to upload their all of their diaries to some cloud based AI service? would you have to painstakingly write their biography into the prompt field yourself? i think a lot of people are using "AI" (i hate that its even called that) for things that it should never have been used for. use it as a tool to summarize your emails and make lists, not as a therapist or girlfriend.
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