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"Cognitive amplifier?" Bullshit. It demonstrably makes people who use it stupider and more prone to believing falsehoods.
I'm watching people in my industry (software development) who've bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they're producing the shittiest garbage I've laid eyes on as a developer. And students who are using it in school aren't learning, because ChatGPT is doing all their work - badly - for them. The smart ones are avoiding it like the blight on humanity that it is.
As evidence: How the fuck is a company as big as Microsoft letting their CEO keep making such embarassing public statements? How the fuck has he not been forced into more public speaking training by the board?
This is like the 4th "gaffe" of his since the start of the year!
You don't usually need "social permission" to do something good. Mentioning that is at best, publicly stating that you think you know what's best for society (and they don't). I think the more direct interpretation is that you're openly admitting you're doing the type of thing that you should have asked permission for, but didn't.
This is past the point of open desperation.
And they are all getting dependent and addicted to something that is currently almost "free" but the monetization of it all will soon come in force. Good luck having the money to keep paying for it or the capacity to handle all the advertisement it will soon start to push out. I guess the main strategy is manipulate people into getting experience with it with these 2 or 3 years basically being equivalent to a free trial and ensuring people will demand access to the tools from their employees which will pay from their pockets. When barely anyone is able to get their employers to pay for things like IDEs... Oh well.
We watched this exact same tactic happen with Xbox gamepass over the last 5 years. They introduced it and left in the capability to purchase the "upgrade" for $1/year. Now they are suddenly cranking it up to $30/month and people are still paying it because they feel like it's a service they "have to have".
Textbook example of enshittification.
Is it $30/month on top of Xbox gold or does the game pass include it?
It's included, but good lord if that's not a very high price for temporary access to a collection of bargain bin games. You could buy a full price game every other month for that money.
On top of that, I have personally developed some gaming habits that I don't care for at all as a direct result of gamepass.
Subscriptions are thieves of intentionality
This recent massive price hike (it fucking doubled) is what got me to cancel my live, completely.
I've been subscribed since 2002, when it first released. So their greed lost a sure stream of income. I'm not alone.