• Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    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…

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      5 months ago

      I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high.

      You’re thinking like you are the customer and the customer is always right, so if you pay for a service it should provide you what you want, right?

      This is not that scenario.

      You are not the customer. You are a product that is being sold to advertisers. It does not matter if you also pay them money, you are still the product. If you pay them money on top of being sold then you are just an especially profitable product.

      Paying them money will not cause you to cease being a product, no matter how much money you are willing to pay.

      If you use a different company’s product that starts off with you being the customer, eventually, they will learn that they can make more money by selling you to other people, and they will.

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        5 months ago

        Yup. Any entity ties to Wall St. must make that $ line go higher every quarter. The how doesn’t matter.

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        5 months ago

        I was more thinking that if people were paying they might give more thoughts to what they are diving into. But yeah I agree that’s just a wet dream.