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Why do they all act like AI is the holy grail ?? Phone update: here you go, AI. New app: here you go. AI. Websites: here you go. AI.
I've tried it, but AI sucks. All tech questions give non-working answers. Everything else, the AI always agree with you.
They’re using us to train it and offloading the costs of training it to us. This isn’t for us or customer service or whatever, they want to use their AIs to further develop them is all
they could make it when you opt out from AI features, you dont need to pay for the AI features. but they are Greedy so they will probably not do that.
Good for him. He is paying for evil so he gets what he wanted.
I suggest you check the degoogle communities here on Lemmy, or the reddit one (idk if you still use reddit) for the alternatives that suit you. I've degoogle for quite a while and never looked back. I don't even use YouTube anymore. But us that degoogle, don't necessarily choose the same alternatives, as we have different needs, requirements or skills. And there are a lot of options, especially if you are willing to pay for services as you obviously are given your predicament.
If this is due to you owning a small business and this has been your chosen service, the shift can be a bit daunting, but many people have degoogle their small businesses with no problem and even saved money afterwards. This depends on what you end up choosing.
I'm sorry for the situation you're in. Take your digital sovereignty back as a response to this type of corporate decisions. And remain vigilant. As some of the alternatives might become as corrupt one day.
Good luck on whatever your decision may be.
Paying for corpotrash.
Google wants to replace most of its features with gemini powered tools. This is just the beginning. They own youtube and of course they're starting to train their models on that too, they have a deal with reddit so they're also turning all known internet forums into a huge database.
It's so weird because Gemini is one of the dumbest of these bots out there.
Weirdly its good in image/video analysis in my testing???
but it doesnt filter properly and easy to bypass when using the API
They already wrote they trained it on YouTube!
Because it's training on reddit users.
It was six months ago but not anymore
Once the feedback loop really kicks off then we'll see it turn to shit faster than all the rest.
Still fucking garbage lol.
Lots of victim-blaming in these comments
Nobody is forcing them to use Google services. And under capitalism voting with our wallets is all we got.
Nobody is forcing them to use Google services.
If you’re a small business with no IT budget, your options are pretty limited.
You can choose from 2 or 3 horrible companies that actually integrate with your stuff out-of-the-box, or you can do a bunch of manual work that none of your competitors are doing.
For a lot of companies, it’s not ignorance or carelessness, but a sober understanding that they’ll have to “render unto Caesar” before they can move on.
Then cancel I guess.
Cancel sounds great! 👌
Adobe is doing this too and unless their AI is going to fix the legacy bugs the company clearly doesn't care enough to fix then it's not good enough to cost more.
Affinity
GIMP
Etc.
Oh don't even get me started. I know so many softwares and their limitations and if I could cut Adobe completely out of my workflow I wouldn't wait another second.
They're also bundling AI with their most expensive tiers. More than likely logging 100% of that revenue towards AI to justify this whole boondoggle.
Dont use subscription services.
Pay for services that respect their users
FTFY
Proton mail, mullvad, bitwarden to name a few
This does not work for nearly 100% of people. Fucking health insurance is a subscription. Guess a lot of Americans don't have them, though.
Wtf is google offering that you're paying for anyway? advertising?
Google Workspace (GMail, Meet, Calendar Drive, Docs, Sheets, ...) is a popular alternative to MS365 among companies.
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Things change.
Ten years ago I joined a newly formed small company. They were all-in on the google suite for everything, and it was great. Gmail, docs, meet, all joined up really well and fully cloud so everyone could work just as easily from home as in the office, with no on-prem hardware or VPNs or anything. It made the work so productive.
But of course enshittification happens, corps get evil, and everything goes down the toilet.
These days I am degoogling as much as possible and would never choose g-suite again, either personally or for business, but 10 years ago for that small business it was a godsend.
It's not like 365 is so great anyway
Storage on google drive comes to mind. Not that I pay for it, but I know it's something others do.