Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    nothing they slop out is addicting unless it’s finding alternate options like linux

    and by features… microslop means charging, and making it crappier to add more paywalls and ads…

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Remember the time Microsoft was profiting off of the Palestinian Genocide? Oh wsit, that is right now!

  • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I used tonreally like Microsoft but god more and more I want to just get away from them. I am seriously considering moving off my M365 family plan, which I really like, but mostly use as a giant cloud ball and good fucking god whynis the One Drive app on Android so fucking bad?

    They are following the Google Path for me. Some 20 years ago, I had a dude at work call me the biggest Google fan they know. I have, for theblast 10-15 years now, used Google as little as possible and strongoy advocate against them for being spyware. Microsoft is moving down this path very rapidly. If I didn’t enjoy Fortnite I wouldn’t even run Windows on any of my PCs, 2/3 of them are already Linux only and I love using Linux way more than Windows (I’ve used it off andnon for decades now).

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    From a business standpoint, this doesn’t sound like the worst idea. OpenAI figured out how to make people addicted to their chatbots, after all, and they successfully implemented the strategy of “harm people, apologize later.”