Apparently they are also hiring back some of them.

29% of firms have already rehired for AI-cut roles, while 55% of executives regret replacing workers with AI. From Big Tech to fast food, the AI revolution promised efficiency—instead, it delivered a costly lesson in human judgment.

AI: “Great news! I’ve found the mosquito! I’ll shoot it with the laser now.”

Inventor: “Oww! That was my arm!”

AI: “You’re absolutely right! My mistake. Let me scan again… Okay I’ve definitely identified the mosquito this time! Shooting laser now…”

Inventor: “DAMN IT, THAT’S THE EXACT SAME ARM, AGAIN!”

Holy shit, he’s snubbed while Milli Vanillin are included? That one’s got to sting like a mf.

They have ads on the home screen on their streaming boxes too. Maybe not as bad as their TVs, but definitely bad enough. Roku has getting steadily worse for quite a while, but their products have really gone to shit over the last several years.

For those looking for an alternative solution, one option is to buy a cheap Onn streaming box (which runs Google TV), and then side-load an open source launcher onto it. No more ads, but still a nice user experience.

The only wrinkle is that you’ll need to use Adb and hook it into your PC one time and use some terminal commands to get the new launcher to stick around after device restarted. But it’s not too bad.

Ligers (products of male lions and female tigers), and tigons (product of female lions and male tigers).

Male ligers are sterile, but female ones can reproduce. Same with tigons.

I can’t speak for the pro series. I had as Pixel 1 that was very good.

But then for cost and headphone jack reasons I switched to the a series when my Pixel 1 died. Both I and friends and family have had various Pixel ‘a’ series phones, and we’ve all seen the quality get progressively worse. Batteries, gyros, cameras, screens, you name it. I wouldn’t recommend that specific line of phones.

I don’t think it even needs to get that complicated.

Until they issue a patch you can just open the Amazon app from the home screen. It only does the affiliate nonsense when you launch it from the app list.

Also, you can disable the Smart Feed app. That apparently fixes it too.

From reading the article, the conclusion right now is that this isn’t a conscious act by Motorola.

My guess is they used an open source library in their Smart Feed app that has been poisoned with an affiliate link injection. Either that or someone working at Motorola slipped the code in and their quality control process missed it.

Neither one of those is a good look for Motorola. But it probably isn’t as bad as the headline makes it sounds.

On a side note, I ditched the increasingly shoddy Pixel a series for a mid-level Motorola phone a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back.

Why are you so obsessed with these canal death stories?

Fine, just as long as they contain all of it in an “AI Slop” section.

This is what happens when you let the oil industry and their lobbyists have unfettered control of the narrative and legislation .You get a huge number of politicians falling into their pockets, and progress is stymied at every turn.

It’s actually kind of surprising America has made the limited progress on EVs that we have. But it’s nowhere near enough. And now we are paying the piper.

Dollar store reddit, now with extra AI crap? Oooooh… Sounds fucking terrible!

I don’t have a strong preference. I’m just waiting for the Star Trek Wars, followed by the Star Wars Trek (when Star Trek wins the war and Star Wars is sent into exile).

(Futurama reference, for those who didn’t know.)

Oh, fair enough.

Regular Tesla drivers who bought their vehicle several years ago, before Musk showed very clear signs of being a Nazi POS? Yeah I have some sympathy for them.

But Cybertruck users knew exactly who they were buying from. They deserve no sympathy.

While very different in some ways, some parallels between the AI-driven layoffs and the offshore outsourcing layoffs of the mid-2000s are striking.

Ultimately both scenarios were/are driven by corporate greed. And it looks like the AI one is backfiring for many of the same reasons as the offshore one.

They are replacing experienced staff who have strong critical thinking abilities and hands-on knowledge, and the replacements lack the institutional knowledge and the ability to look at the big picture, and they substitute speed for methodological discernment.

Time is cyclical.

Yeah, he was a good contributor. Shame he’s inactive now.

This is a good summary.

One thing I will add though, I don’t think AI is going away any time soon. The hype and saturation will probably fade a bit (hopefully). But what we are also seeing right now is a move to more self-hosted AIs due to price increases in things like Copilot.

I wish some if my coworkers would realize the limitations and hazards of over-using AI. Too many of them are still deep-throating all things AI, pushing for it to be used for every single little thing.

I think they assume we humans are just really shit at grooming. Like they are thinking “this giant hairless ape is terrible at grooming! Stop pecking like a damn bird and give a big ol’ lick! No wonder they frequently have to stand under water to clean themselves. Poor dumb weirdo species”.

But yes, they are still affectionate towards us. Pets licking is a sign of affection and bonding. I’m pretty sure I’m many cases there’s a good degree of ‘pity affection’ though.