Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative AI and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee to offset the cost of the technology.
Won’t last long. Free apps will ruin that Amazon subscription plan fast. One can already get a local and free chatAI and it’s already just a few clicks setup and I wouldn’t be surprised if these get made more easier for the mainstream any day. The tech is just too new, but were getting there soon.
I’ve got this neat device that uses a compressed liquid fuel to provide a concentrated, adjustable element of heat and light simultaneously; that can be administered to any object which will render it useless, if not absolutely destroyed.
Follow that up with direct strikes with a large chunk of metal, attached to a long wooden handle.
I hope for one good thing to come out from all this AI madness : people might get used to pay for a service on the internet again. If this miraculously happens it could lead to people more cautiously choose services over quality instead of the one with darkest patterns.
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Won’t last long. Free apps will ruin that Amazon subscription plan fast. One can already get a local and free chatAI and it’s already just a few clicks setup and I wouldn’t be surprised if these get made more easier for the mainstream any day. The tech is just too new, but were getting there soon.
Lmao, charge us for everything which was at first an incentive to buy your shit products
Just what the cash-strapped people of the world want - more monthly fees.
And for something that is already data-mining you. Adding a fee just adds insult to injury.
Since it won’t come with my Prime sub, it’ll just get unplugged and thrown away.
Also, because the AI part.
Uhhh…it’s had AI backing it for most of the decade
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I’ve got this neat device that uses a compressed liquid fuel to provide a concentrated, adjustable element of heat and light simultaneously; that can be administered to any object which will render it useless, if not absolutely destroyed.
Follow that up with direct strikes with a large chunk of metal, attached to a long wooden handle.
I have a blowtorch and a sledgehammer.
I’m sorry Bill. I can’t open the pod bay door until you subscribe to Omni-zon
But I have to pee really bad HAL!!!
Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don’t care for an overhaul I don’t want and tries to charge a fee I won’t pay.
I suspect when this doesn’t do the numbers they want they’ll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.
You should watch Spaceballs. They have Perri-Air.
Not having Amazon is great and cheaper than having it.
I didn’t think people really expected to believe that their smart stuff was really theirs. Did they? Imagine renting your bulbs to Amazon.
I will pay exactly zero dollars, thanks!
Looks like I’ll be selling the few Amazon Alexa-centric devices I’ve got.
I wonder how many fools are out there that will pay for this.
Too many, way, way too many,
I hope for one good thing to come out from all this AI madness : people might get used to pay for a service on the internet again. If this miraculously happens it could lead to people more cautiously choose services over quality instead of the one with darkest patterns.
One can still dream…