Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/
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Pirtatogna@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 101d
Commercial company wants people addicted to their product. Noooooo, surely not...? /s
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 101d
Doesn't make it less fucking evil.
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d
Of course not and I didn't mean to imply it would. Evilness of mega-corporations shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, though.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 101d
All the more important to point out how fucked it is.
4am@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 101d
People tend to handwave it “oh pfft of course they are” but less so when proof is provided
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
No one said it was?
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 101d
The above comment normalizes the behaviour.
Antagnostic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d
They had their chance for me to be addicted with Cortana and they squandered it
vikingtons@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d
I still truly love that in 2015, Microsoft called their assistant cortana, just as 343 painted her character as the antagonist.
It's almost poetic.
Dojan@pawb.social · 7 pts · 101d
Reminds me of that one article that came out saying that Zuckerberg is "affectionally" referred to as the "Eye of Sauron" in the office, or something like that.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
Sauce?
Antagnostic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
Sauce for what? That it happened then they canned it? It was when Alexa came out and MS was trying to keep up with the jones's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant)
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 101d
Sounds pretty par for the course.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
So is their (inevitable) tragic failure. XD
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
I mean I'm betting they'll fail anyway. I don't think anyone has ever been addicted to anything Microsoft has made
okamiueru@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d
Minesweeper and Pinnball is the closest they've gotten