The entire point of shoehorning AI into everything is to make people stop thinking for themselves and allowing a corporation to do it for them.
reply“””If I could just press “buy” from within Gemini and pay via Google Pay (or better still, Apple Pay) I’d do it in a heartbeat”””
Yeah, until that becomes enshittified and you don’t notice because you no longer do research on components.
>...is to make people stop thinking for themselves and allowing a corporation to do it for them.
replyInsert that "always has been" meme.
Microsoft was brought to court in the 90's for shoehorning in Internet Explorer.
so what, i want to build a little remote controlled plane that works
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replyI would assume the average purchase in Walmart is significantly more low-tech than this though
replyIt's not even just that- with component selection you have a handful of datasheets that give you (ideally) fairly truthful information about the device. You can rather deterministically look at these and compare them.
replyRegular consumer products? Good fucking luck. Anywhere an LLM pulls from is probably going to be mostly SEO'd listicles.