Never have I ever been this gaslit by a wearable.
    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

        • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          12 days ago

          Fully providing every single need to their people in an attempt to create the most efficient worker possible? It just so happens that their “work” is assimilating people into the hive, but… The methods surrounding their work are pretty nice.

          • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
            0·
            12 days ago

            I mean… the method is basically “join us or die”… I don’t think that’s particularly nice…

            • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
              01·
              12 days ago

              I’m not talking about the method they use to work, I’m talking about the methods they use to facilitate that work. They provide their workers with homes and sustenance. I would expect to put entertainment on that list too if they weren’t cyborgs

              • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
                1·
                12 days ago

                Hmm, the Borg internet (or intranet I guess) probably has a lot of entertainment material collected, but then we know that drone emotions are suppressed by implants so you wouldn’t actually be able to enjoy any of it…

                “Homes” feels like a stretch… an alcove is worse than one of those sleeping pods in Japan, you don’t even get privacy.

  • SeeFerns@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    So it listens to you and you can “permit it” to read emails and all that shit? I didn’t even know this kind of thing existed let alone that anyone would CHOOSE to allow this. Crazy.

  • whalebiologist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    I compared Bee’s version of my day with my diary entry. I wrote about trying Paddington Bear-themed marmalade sandwiches in our office kitchen. (Not a fan. I did, however, note that the strawberry-flavored shortbread cookie was excellent.) I wrote several paragraphs about a sensitive text conversation I had with a friend. Bee never picked up these moments because memorable things aren’t always spoken aloud. It made me wonder: in a hypothetical future where everyone has a Bee, do unspoken memories simply not exist?

    I liked reading this part because I had not considered that consumers of these products would have an expectation of their device to document their thoughts.

    • dzsimbo@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      It makes sense though, doesn’t it? I imagine someone going in knowing it’s machine learning doesn’t have too many false assumptions, but they are being programmed in a way to mimic humans. The voice recognition part has come an incredible long way and I would not be surprised that this makes the uninitiated expect more of the language model than actually is there.

      In this era of atomic isolation, even I wanted to believe it’s true. Having an algorithm that remembers my name through reboots would deepen the sense that there is a pretty developed entity helping me. Luckily I skimp on the premium versions.

    • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
      01·
      12 days ago

      I don’t think writers should be paid either. We have AI to do all writing now anyway, so what do we need writecels for anyway? 😏

      • Sibyls@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        That’s not the responsibility of the end user. That’s the responsibility of the host. If you’re going to have people write your articles, pay them.