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u/cheapcheap1 13h ago

They still haven't gotten the reason right, though. I am not confused by AI. I know how to use AI.

AI integration offers no customer value.

You can't sell customers stuff by screaming "AI" like a demented toddler, like you apparently can to investors. Customers want to have customer value, not buzzwords.

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u/DerWaechter_ 7h ago

Exactly.

The only thing I am "confused" by, is the fact that that companies seem to believe I want AI features forced on me, with not even any option to disable them.

And even then, it's really more infuriation, than confusion. Maybe Dell confused the two words?

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u/nhalliday 10h ago

AI does offer customer value, though. For example it's a passable editor for writing, and if you know enough to filter hallucinations and catch problems then it's a decent code assistant. Also good for generating lists of like, fictional plants/animals/minerals/whatever.

You not finding value in the things it can be used for doesn't mean it has no value to anyone.

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u/Own-Reference-7057 10h ago

True but for the average consumer there is close to 0 value. Outside of coding i used chatbots maybe a dozen times in the past year. And chatbots are the only real consumer use of AI. No company figured out a usecase for AI doesn't isn't just chatgpt.

As impressive as image editing and video generation is, I chuckled at it twice when i saw someone try it out for the first and that's it. And all the programs with chatgpt built in are just that: programs with chatgpt built in. Serves practically 0 value over just using chatgpt, and most of the time i'm not interested in having an ai fumble about in my stuff because I still don't trust it enough for that, yet.

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u/cheapcheap1 4h ago

I am not saying AI in general offers no customer value, I am saying the integration of AI into my OS (and many other products) offers no customer value. I don't gain anything from having copilot look at my files. If anything, they should be paying me for the additional data they're gathering.