I hear you... Moving back to Linux to get away from all that AI nonsense MS is shoving down our throats (thankfully I don't need RHEL, but eww). I do my best to filter AI topics from hacker news, and it regularly removes about 1/3 of the articles in my feed, and still there's always a new term, technology/technique, TLA, model, that I have to add to my filter. I think ublock supports regex, but I'm not very good at that, so I just manually enter variations of capital letters that make sense, like openai, OpenAI, Openai, Open ai, etc... otherwise one gets through just because of that small change. It's like playing Wack-a-Mole. Now AI search everywhere, even if you block it they try to force it back.
I just saw Adobe is adding "AI" to their crap AND increases prices across the board even if it's not a feature you want/need, and of course they have vendor lockin. Seriously the FTC in the US should go after Adobe if anyone is a bloody monopoly on a service like that it's them.
And the damn energy wasted. And Zuckerberg pushing for what amounts to ELIZA2000. The "loneliness epidemic" sure as hell won't be solved by talking to a chat bot as a "Friend" or a "Therapist", and just how much mental illness do the people leading us have? I mean this in a serious way, like they are mentally unhealthy.
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Date: 2025-05-21 08:58 pm (UTC)I do my best to filter AI topics from hacker news, and it regularly removes about 1/3 of the articles in my feed, and still there's always a new term, technology/technique, TLA, model, that I have to add to my filter. I think ublock supports regex, but I'm not very good at that, so I just manually enter variations of capital letters that make sense, like openai, OpenAI, Openai, Open ai, etc... otherwise one gets through just because of that small change. It's like playing Wack-a-Mole. Now AI search everywhere, even if you block it they try to force it back.
I just saw Adobe is adding "AI" to their crap AND increases prices across the board even if it's not a feature you want/need, and of course they have vendor lockin. Seriously the FTC in the US should go after Adobe if anyone is a bloody monopoly on a service like that it's them.
And the damn energy wasted. And Zuckerberg pushing for what amounts to ELIZA2000. The "loneliness epidemic" sure as hell won't be solved by talking to a chat bot as a "Friend" or a "Therapist", and just how much mental illness do the people leading us have? I mean this in a serious way, like they are mentally unhealthy.