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Ai is suppose to make Everything more efficient except all I see is it driving costs up by an insane degree.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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The only reason I still have a gmail account is that the old people in my family would lose track of me if I dropped it.
Google became prime enshitification too. You may only degoogle.
Since Brian hadn’t already cancelled Google for being awful in every other way, this is exactly the push he needs to stop giving them money and switch to better, cheaper options.
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.
Because AI is a solution in search of a problem. The current plan is to just put it in everything and hope one of them is better as a result. It's not the worst plan, because eventually some combination of things is likely to be useful, but it means a lot of useless shit will be slapped together. Of course it's also far from a great plan, because it means a lot of useless shit will e slapped together.
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
Very Plausible
A buddy works at Microsoft. This is exactly what they're doing.
The soaking of customers has kicked into second gear. This is a great time to degoogle, as it will only be made more difficult
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.
They wouldn't be able to make MONEY off of AI, otherwise, cause most people would decline it.
For my business, I'm pretty happy with Zoho Workplace.
Which hoster are they using? Was looking into this but found it confusing for some reason.
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.
They've been pushing the auto dubbing feature super hard lately. Which isn't exactly the same thing but a bet they are lumping it in with other AI stuff.
It's so weird because Gemini is one of the dumbest of these bots out there.
Because it's training on reddit users.
Are you saying that reddit users are the dumbest users out there?
I was implying it yes
Lol nice
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!
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Then cancel I guess.
Cancel sounds great! 👌
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.
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.
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.
Good for him. He is paying for evil so he gets what he wanted.
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.
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