So far all of their ai stuff has been:
Accessibility features
A sidebar that you can put a third party AI into, which probably took an afternoon to code
I just don’t get why people are upset that they’re doing literally the bare minimum to grab headlines so that normies realize they’re a legit browser.
Why are the capitalists so complainy?
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps 😤, facts don’t care about your feelings 😤, Apple is mean make them stop it 😭”
I mean, they are a close second. Meta is maintaining a comfortable lead, but give Twitter a few more Bluesky hemorrhage cycles.
Wait, are you calling me a “bootlicker?” When have I ever been anything but critical about the oligarchs running our society?
Yeesh. The Internet be wild, y’all.
Nah, you’ve got cause and effect flipped. Know what we used to do when sociopaths did too much sociopathic stuff? We made the sociopaths leave. Now they have too much money, so we can’t effectively do that anymore.
Of course, yes, they did create that system. But they created it so that they could retain the benefits of the society without contributing to it meaningfully.
Something ain’t right
Ah, I think what you’re looking at there is called “capitalism.” It’s what enables selfish anti-social/sociopathic behavior without triggering our societal inclination to kick them out.
Civilizations, societies, communities. The Apollo program. The National Park Service. Emancipation. Everything good we’re capable of as a species comes from working together.
The mass weaponization of it is, of course, a problem.
It is a justification, actually, because other people are using it against them to extract value for themselves. Users of corporate social media are no more responsible for their addictions than alcoholics are. Some people break it, sure. And some people use it without developing an addiction. But those aren’t the people we’re talking about here.
And it served us well for millennia. In a lot of ways, it made us who we are.
I understand that logic, but “being the product” must not really be that bad for them. They might complain, but if it was truly distasteful, they’d do something about it.
And being exploited for profit and explicitly knowing it is about the saddest thing I can think of for my fellow humans. It’s no wonder the billionaires just take and take, because people let them.
One may as well have said the same things about cigarettes up through the 1960s. Sometimes we do things against our best interests. Sometimes it’s really, really bad for us. Sometimes it’s painful and deadly.
Humans aren’t rational creatures.
Will it only be seen as an alternative once a critical mass of users move there?
I mean, yeah? That’s how social media works.
Goals, for sure. The guy just does whatever he wants at this point. I think he’s doing photography now?