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All that electricity ain't free, and the TechBros sure don't want to pay the light bill. It's not good enough that LLMs and their successors be useful and successful. Unless they change the whole economy, lots of somebodies have been burning trillions of dollars.
Really? What apps in particular? Asking, because I have not come across "extra payment for unrequested AI" yet.
OneDrive: we are putting up the price of our family plan significantly.
Also one drive: look at all the new AI stuff we have added to your plan
(Also OneDrive: yes your 6 person plan is for sharing but you can't share the new stuff we've added to your sharing plan)
Oh, ok. Sounds bad, sorry for you! - I am not using OneDrive. Neither paid or unpaid.
Google added a AI at the top of search results with a premium version that's supposed to be better somehow.
Why would I want a worse answer for money?
Marketing, that's all it is. Companies know how to make ads convincing you that you need their product.
Too bad they have forgotten how to make good products.
Once we can no longer search for answers.... They will start charging for giving us ... Edited answers
Dude I fucking hope every AI chatbot get put behind a paywall soon. Do you know how quickly these pointless AI assistants would die?
Who uses Google in 2025?
Hey man it’d be better than what we got now
Don’t want AI on google?
Easy peasy just type -noai after your search string.
Don't want to get hit in the face? Easy. Just say "Don't hit me in the face" every time someone walks in the room.
There is no way that actually works. Its probably going to show me porn or something.
Edit: What the fuck ?! (it works)
Don't want AI on your search?
Easy peasy just use Duck Duck Go.
Bonus: So many things but also no more captcha on every search because they don't like you protecting your own privacy.

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