Post #1250211
2026-04-16 07:53 UTC
I was down visiting my brother, when he needed to know the answer to a question. He pulled out his phone, said to me "sorry, I know you don't like AI, but this is just too convenient", and dictated his question to Gemini.
And I'm just looking at him, like, bro.
You have reinvented voice activated Google Search, but with the possibility of hallucinated nonsense, and even more privacy violations by global megacorporations.
And if it's the cheery, fake-polite interface you like, we shoulda just brought back Clippy for you. :clippy:
Replies (4)
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@iris_meredith@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 07:57
@Tattie Clippy? Not Bonzi Buddy?
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@codecat@meow.social 2026-04-16 08:26
@Tattie the amount of times my friends have told me “I know you don’t like AI, but…” is too damn high 😆
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@dave@alvarado.social 2026-04-16 12:26
@Tattie *tap tap tap* "It looks like you're trying to burn down the world to get a simple answer! I can help you with that!"
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@aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social 2026-04-16 15:57
@Tattie I think your brother summed up the core issue of most of Humanity's problems: laziness. I believe 80% of people will chose what's easy, however bad the consequences, over what's actually right.