DAalseth

Oh good, ANOTHER reason to turn as much of that s**t off that I can.

I always roll my eyes when Tech Bros insist that automation, robots, AI will not cost jobs. Not only will they, they have already done so. 

DAalseth said:

I am nowhere as enthralled or optimistic as many of the rest of you are. I looked down my notes from the WWDC presentation and under the AI features what did I have?

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An improved Siri might be nice. To be honest though, right now it does what I want it to. It answers my questions. Transcription is actually quite good and I use it often. I don’t see how AI could make Siri more useful. I do see though the distinct possibility that it might make it less so. I will be watching this.

Well, for one you could have Apple Intelligence summarize the keynote for you, because you sure aren't good at taking notes if you missed all the useful enhancements coming to Siri that were outlined.

Lastly, we come to ChatGPT. What is the best way to put this? Hard no. F* no. Absolutely not. I don’t want the option to approve each query or not.

You can turn it off, in fact I think it may be off by default. Calm down.

I am very aware of the improvements that are coming to Siri, both from the keynote and other reports. I am however skeptical until I see the finished product. Right now I don’t have any problems with Siri. It does what I want. Setting aside the WWDC sales pitch, will it still when iOS 18 rolls out. Only time will tell.

I am nowhere as enthralled or optimistic as many of the rest of you are. I looked down my notes from the WWDC presentation and under the AI features what did I have?
”No”
”F* No”
”Absolutely Not”

Let’s take them in the order you have in the article. First the writing tools. I would like an improved spell checker. The ones available have gotten progressively worse over the years. Now they not only don’t suggest the word I’m trying to spell, they suggest words that don’t fit, and make no sense in context. Sometimes they aren’t even words. But given the history of them over the last twenty years I am not holding my breath. Same with Grammar checkers. 

As far as using the tools to change the writing style, the voice of what I write, Hard No. I am a writer. I have crafted my style, my voice over decades and hundreds if not thousands of projects. The last thing I will EVER do is use a robot to make me sound like every other person using a robot to write because THEY never learned how. When I write something I want people to know that I, me, a real human being wrote it. To do that it sometimes means bending the rules. That’s what you get from experience.

The ability to clean up images would be nice. The ability to create images is a hard no. I am an artist. I have spent the last five decades, first with pencil in sketchbooks, then pen and ink on vellum, then oil paints, then computer painting tools, honing my craft, developing my style. I am not going to use a robot to make my art look just like everyone else who uses a robot because they don’t know how to do it. 

Those who can, do. Those who can’t use AI.

An improved Siri might be nice. To be honest though, right now it does what I want it to. It answers my questions. Transcription is actually quite good and I use it often. I don’t see how AI could make Siri more useful. I do see though the distinct possibility that it might make it less so. I will be watching this.

Lastly, we come to ChatGPT. What is the best way to put this? 

Hard no. F* no. Absolutely not. I don’t want the option to approve each query or not. I want that abomination built on intellectual property theft from writers and artists like ME off of my systems. I want it killed with fire. I want the company sued into oblivion, and the founders bankrupted for their crimes. I will not use it and I do not want its data stealing code anywhere near me and my work. This is not negotiable. 

I have to get the new model iPhone because it’s a fraction of a millimetre thinner.
-Nobody-