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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

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themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
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    Hahahaha suck it, Microslop. I look forward to your Chapter 11 filing.

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    That shit should set off alarm bells of all regulators… but we elect people who don’t give a fuck so…

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    Gotta produce dopamine for that to happen. Not cortisol.

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    Only Scout believed in himself.

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    I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.

    • KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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      You are not the target audience.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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        Oh we’re the target, just not the customer.

  • Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml
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    Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it’s always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.

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    Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time’s the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We’ll see what they call number four.

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      You forgot clippy, but everyone forgets about clippy unless it’s in this exact context. Or it’s Norfolk wizard game.

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      You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too

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      Is there any fundamental diffidence between Copilot and Scout, or is it just a straight up rebranding?

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      Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could’ve doubled down on whatads it good but nope.

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    Did they try making it good?

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      That’s the beauty of it (from their viewpoint), they don’t have to make it good, just unavoidable.

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      yes, good at self-destructing.

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    microslop can fuck off.

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      I think you mean to say: “microslop can slop off”

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        Microfuck can slop off.

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          Fuckroslop can slop off.

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    do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?

    A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/

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      That kind of fine is a pittance.

      • adarza@lemmy.ca
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        true. but this one wasn’t a class action, either… just one plaintiff.

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    adding new “features”

    look inside

    enshittification

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      looks inside" its all AI, nothing but AI"

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    Duh. I wouldn’t have called it “addiction”, but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn’t take away classical search.

    I thought that was obvious from the start.

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    Legitimately most modern games or all of social media.

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    Well, Microsoft, if you want that, put more cocaine in it.

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      Congratz you are the first person to successfully sell AI to me.

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