• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    These virtual assistants are entirely a sham to artifically drive up stock value. This is how it works:

    • Company A is big tech that invested billions of dollars building up a LLM model that nobody asked for to increase it’s stock value
    • Company A incorporates its AI model into all of its products even if nobody wants them to, once again, artificially increase the stock price
    • When company A runs out of places in its own products to shove the AI, it moves over to company B where it does everything in its power to convince them get the AI and incorporate it into everything
    • Company B sees company A’s sham and wants in, and so it buys the AI and smears its feces on all its products to artificially inflate its own stock price.
    • When Company B is exhausted, company A moves on to company C, D, E, and so on and so forth.

    In the end all the companies, or more specifically, all the executives, win in the short term by making billions upon billions by artificially increasing stock prices and thus creating a bubble. They’re the only winners. Regular employees at these companies still get treated like shit, consumers are getting much worse products, and the economy is doomed to another recession due to their actions… but that won’t stop them because they know the people won’t do shit, the government is in their pockets and won’t stop them, and if a recession does really happen, they’re confident they’ll get bailed out.

        • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          Yup. I noticed that too when it updated. I left the app a scathing 1 star review on the play store immediately afterwards. Probably won’t do shit to change their mind to get rid of it though. 🤷🏽‍♂️

          Although I did mention in my review that I had previously recommended soundcore to some co-workers and several of them bought their headphones, but now I’m actively steering people away causing lost sales… Hopefully that catches their attention.

          • TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today
            3·
            2 hours ago

            I left them a 1 star review, too, but it was because of showing ads in their app. Unfortunately they’re the best headphones I’ve tried.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 hours ago

      If there is any place to put an AI assistant, it’s that.

      Why do your headphones have an app anyway?

      (An I was bothered that my headphone got into the penultimate last trend an reduced all the functionality into a single button… you know: on, off, bluetooth sync, increase/decrease volume, next track, change language. What is that phone that got into both the app for everything trend and the forced AI one?)

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      13·
      15 hours ago

      Anker?

      I noticed their soundcore app did that last time I connected to wifi and it auto-updated… Inimmediately went looking for an old apk.

        • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
          13·
          12 hours ago

          I’ve got one for my bluetooth headphones.

          You can change the color of the light ring on them, you can control the noise cancelling modes and set an equalizer.

          You can also do some fancy camera scanning of your ears that is supposedly used to personalize their sound.

          Imho all pretty gimmicky and useless, or something that doesn’t require a dedicated headphone app. The only thing really useful about it is, that sometimes they have trouble connecting to my phone through the standard Bluetooth menu. The app can take care of that, though. But maybe they could have spent the time developing that app to fix this issue altogether.

        • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          11 hours ago

          I use mine to set what the touch controls do. For each ear I have one touch button, and I can set an action for touch, touch X2, touch X3, and long touch. The actions are volume up, volume down, skip forward, skip back, next track, previous track, pause, open assistant (yuck), and probably more.

          It has equalizers and settings for a feature that lets you “peek” at sounds around you, max volume safety settings, and it has some white noise/sleep sounds/meditation tracks.

          Luckily, I can set the touch controls and equalizer, save it to the headphones, and delete the app. I don’t need to see the battery level for each earbud and the case; I charge it once a week and I’ve never run out. Don’t care what the number is.

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          For my regular headphones, not much. I can use the buttons on them to cycle through sound modes (no modification, sound canceling, and external mics) as well as the normal things like switch volumes, tracks etc.

          Once I got the update, I deleted the app and got an older one. If they make it mandatory somehow, I’ll just not use the app and get different brand headphones when these break.

  • Naho_Zako@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    Going from my GOS Pixel to my Galaxy Tablet is like getting whiplash. I disabled and deleted a lot of useless shit with adb, but every now and then it’ll update and show me dumb shit. I got literally jumpscared by seeing Gemini in my app list a few weeks ago.

    God I wish there were custom ROMs for it…

    • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Whoever comes up with a custom ROM for the Wacom Movink Pro 14, I will pay them $1k and take them out for a beer.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    16 hours ago

    On all my phones I’ve chosen to remove gemini completely and installed Dicio Assistant, it’s pretty solid and does all I need it to do. It’s a lot easier on resources too, Gemini loads and stutters while trying to do tons of bullshit for no reason. Dicio just opens, but I do find it being a bit quick to kill the mic.

    Then again though, I’ve found tons of my apps have AI shit bolted on so the whole thing is still slow lmao

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 hours ago

      The only thing keeping me from using this is the “remind me” action that adds a task and reminder to my task list. Any idea if that’s configurable somehow?

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
    12·
    17 hours ago

    The Yazio calory tracker app added a shitty AI assistant a while ago that tells you every time after scanning a pizza that you should eat less pizza. It cannot be disabled. It loads for two to three seconds and you have to wait for it to spew out its shit before continuing.

    Everyone hates it. They had a perfectly good product, but to please investors or some shit they just had to add one more useless feature. Gotta love capitalism. After my subscription runs out, I’ll switch to OpenFoodFacts and FoodYou, fuck 'em.

  • Axolotl@feddit.it
    13·
    18 hours ago

    Happened to me with honor, just a chill day, the phone then updates and boom! AI SLOP; disabled everthing i could but it’s still shoved in my face