The top ones were wholesome apps and games you bought once for like $3-$5. I remember WolframAlpha and Osmos, or like a copy of the Bible or a funny camera or something.
My glasses are not rose tinted: oh was there crap, but it was proper crap. It wasn't 1000 high budget, heavily marketed SEO clone apps flooding the top of searches and promoted to the top by the store system itself like it is now. It legitimately feels like Apple and Google are in on all these scams because it makes a little short term profit.
Back then you could also just browse the store / categories or search for generic terms like launcher or adventure game or something like that.
Today, if you don't know the exact name of the app you want to install you're out of luck. And even if you do, you need to actively avoid the "sponsored" apps trying to mislead you.
A slew of religious smartphone apps are allowing untold millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself.
There is no way that at least some of those aren’t honeypots. Three letter agencies, other nations, blackmailers, the fruit is just hanging too low. Probably not most of them, I imagine there are also just people who want to make a quick buck and not get sued. But I would not be rolling the dice on which one it was if I was doing anything that could remotely be described as confessing.
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floo@retrolemmy.com · 21 pts · 352d
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 352d
Not quite, it hasn't called itself a nazi yet.
Huh? Grok? Mecha WHAT?
floo@retrolemmy.com · 12 pts · 352d
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 352d
I mean, at least the LLM is real
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 352d
Remember when the App Store was nice?
The top ones were wholesome apps and games you bought once for like $3-$5. I remember WolframAlpha and Osmos, or like a copy of the Bible or a funny camera or something.
My glasses are not rose tinted: oh was there crap, but it was proper crap. It wasn't 1000 high budget, heavily marketed SEO clone apps flooding the top of searches and promoted to the top by the store system itself like it is now. It legitimately feels like Apple and Google are in on all these scams because it makes a little short term profit.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 352d
All app development after the app that looked like you were drinking a beer was purely superfluous.
5A7A@feddit.org · 9 pts · 351d
Back then you could also just browse the store / categories or search for generic terms like launcher or adventure game or something like that.
Today, if you don't know the exact name of the app you want to install you're out of luck. And even if you do, you need to actively avoid the "sponsored" apps trying to mislead you.
Not much of a store experience anymore...
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 351d
Like Steam!
Policing one's own store so it isn't a predatory dump? Imagine that.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 352d
I just find it mind blowing that ad bloated obvious shovelware has hundreds of millions of downloads.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 351d
To be fair, tons of that is bots. Or sweatshop marketing agencies.
It's literally an expected 'marketing' tactic now.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 352d
There is no way that at least some of those aren’t honeypots. Three letter agencies, other nations, blackmailers, the fruit is just hanging too low. Probably not most of them, I imagine there are also just people who want to make a quick buck and not get sued. But I would not be rolling the dice on which one it was if I was doing anything that could remotely be described as confessing.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 352d
Me: You're not god. I am.
ChatGPT: You're right! My mistake. sacrifices a bull to me
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 352d
AI is the ultimate idol
hexagon527@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 352d
that didn't take long
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 351d
Not even a year into FirstComm.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 351d
And that's a great thing
FTFY
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 3 pts · 351d
And?
AI is a parrot that will say anything you ask it to
If you tell deepseek to say it is a god, it will do that.
Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 351d
Roko's Basilisk believers are back the big tech. This is not a joke.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 351d
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 351d
Hahaha and I thought I didn't believe in AI before...