This is also why governments are pushing so hard for “AI.” AI won’t be used to improve the quality of our lives. It will be used for advertising, propaganda, surveillance and control. Only AI is fast enough to run all the bots and generate the blizzard of BS fast enough to counter the opinions of millions of people online.
Remember when we were worried that TikTok was going to be used by the CCP to spread Chinese government propaganda?
Good news! It’s STILL going to be used to spread propaganda, it just belongs to another group of billionaire dingbats, now.
The Sun also creates tides, just not as strong as lunar tides. So we would still have tides, even if we had no Moon.
The problem is, the TV won’t let you. The Visio TV won’t let you do anything with it at all until you set up your WiFi connection first. So you can’t even use it as a dumb monitor.
And if you disable WiFi later, the TV will nag you to turn it back on every time the TV starts up. I’m sure this design is intentional.
Here’s a 32" one on Amazon. Found it in just a few seconds.
The problem is, you can never trust companies whose products can update over the air. (like “smart TVs”). The company can promise all kinds of things they won’t do and then sneak something awful into a future update. I will spend a little more on “non-smart / no WiFi” TVs in the future.
Microsoft wants to use the Taskbar for advertising. They can’t do that if users can move it around or hide it.
AI won’t be used to improve our lives. It will be used for propaganda, surveillance and control. For generating deepfakes and running legions of bots.
Only AI is fast enough to generate the blizzard of bullsh*t that governments and corporations need to keep us under control.
When even China has to ban your product due to safety concerns, you’ve probably made some seriously bad design choices somewhere along the line.