• voodooattack@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That’s not the point. He’s planning to harvest data about the environment in your home (what products you have around you, which brands do you prefer, etc) for better ad targeting and whatnot.

    I guarantee that a lot of people will use it; and not because it does a great job, but out of curiosity, peer pressure, or abject laziness.

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      2 days ago

      Well sure, but you can’t harvest data using your one legged mech suit of everyone keeps riding around on their perfectly functional bike.

      LLMs just don’t have a real use case for most people. That’s the core issue here, and it isn’t one that’s going to get solved anytime soon.

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        Yup, their only real use in my daily life would be as a search result summary tool. Unfortunately in my experience they’re they’ve been a net negative in that area and are hidden/ignored because they give the most common answer, which is rarely the specific answer I’m searching for.

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        2 days ago

        I’m pretty sure lots of people use Google Home Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. Now slap a camera on it and hook it to an LLM and you’re all set. That’s what meta is about to do.

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          Meta isn’t really a widget seller, though. Alexa and the Google thing only have the user base they do because they jam it into every device they sell.

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            It’s not a huge leap for them though. They could do it. They already sell VR gear that’s relatively popular, and they have the resources and reach to market anything. If it allows them to spy on people to this level, watch them subsidise any device they sell to hell and back.

            Even acquiring a company that already sells consumer electronics/appliances and subsidising their products isn’t impossible for them. Like I said, they have the resources.

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      2 days ago

      Which will still not be enught to make ads work. It’s so much effort and abuse for nothing.