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I went from using "Opera browser" with "Google". After finding out about the security issues I switched to "Brave browser". It was alright for awhile, I even had it on my Iphone (I switched to a Nokia a while back). "Brave" was advertised as a secure, sort of AI and ad-free browser; 'till this day I see Reddit comments praising it. Like around a month later after I started using it on the regular it started showing it's stupid AI assistant in my face after every single search. I changed my browsers only a few times, so far I'm satisfied with using a mixture of "Floorp" and "Librewolf", but search engines... ohhhh, search engines. I've had every single one I could find, all of them have come down to one of these three: security issues, ads disguised as results or the fucking AI assistants!.
I'm with DuckDuckGo now, compared to the others it seemed like the most reasonable one but I think that title is starting to degrade. It was the same thing as the "Brave" browser + search engine, a few weeks after I started using DuckDuckGo they implanted an AI assistant that just can't get a break. Say you never want to see it or rate it low, doesn't matter because you're fucking seeing it anyway.
Oooh, but those are only browsers and search engines; don't get me started on everything else.
"Announcing the new and improved model of a phone!" And it's just the same design they've been using for the past 10 years with the camera slightly moved on the x axis. They're only promise is that "the built-in AI". Samsung has been using this same fucking argument for the past 3 years thinking that's the reason people are looking to buy a phone. My mother has an older model of the phone and as soon as they released the new "AI" or "amazing... intelligence" (Not so amazing when you find out what it takes to power this shit hole) phone, she got an update that gave her all the same features that the new "AI" phone had. I consider that a majority of the things smartphones do now are unnecessary. Phones are supposed to be a device for quick communication: slip it out, call someone and slip it back in. Why do we have to show in useless bloatware to act like this phone is better than the one in your hands.
I also see more and more people relying on ChatGPT for answers to questions as simple as "How to bake a cake?". Yeah, I'm not the brightest on baking stuff and waste perfectly good product on some weird goop, aaaaand.... that's why I buy cake mixes with instructions on the back, search on the internet or just don't make a cake instead. "How do I wash laundry?" Just do it and figure it out, "how long should I boil an egg?" ask your mom, "How do I spell Borgouise?" at this point I'm just surprised that you know how to use that keyboard. Have we forgotten the simple yet effective life lesson of "learn from your mistakes.".
Don't get me started on the degrading act of treating ChatGPT as a chat-able friend. Your fellow "companion" drinks a shit ton of water every time you send a message. You're talking to soulless program designed to please you. It's attitude is based on a rating the research team gave it. You're not being comforted, your finding meaning most relevant to yourself from words that are algorithmically generated based on keywords you gave it and predictability of what comes next, thus the "hallucinations".
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