OpenPhone is an AI-native Android OS that turns the phone into an agentic device: a system-level AI agent that can see the screen, operate apps, remember commitments, monitor phone events, and continue work in the background
Usually people install custom ROMs specifically to avoid surveillance and random crap running in the background and improve performance, but this is the complete opposite.
I can’t imagine why you would want any of that. There’s nothing in my life or nearby imagined lives that’s so arduous I need an AI “agent” to take care of it.
This supports the hypothesis that it’s driven by out of touch rich people who are used to having an executive assistant. They can’t imagine doing daily tasks because they don’t. “Making a dinner reservation? Myself?? How gauche. Get Amanda to do it.”
I don’t think it’s that they’re out of touch. I think they really want your data. Imagine AI sending a screenshot of your screen every second back to whoever made it and whoever can be bothered to listen in. I think everything else, like the marketing and hype around it, is consensus building.
I’m sure they want the data for money and other nefarious purposes. But as the other person said, I think the way they try to sell people on it reveals they’re out of touch. And maybe a little that AI’s offerings aren’t actually that good.
But a commercial that’s like “it can write a birthday note for your daughter!” is a bleak reflection of someone’s world. That’s not going to resonate with most people. That’s the kind of thing a soulless husk with no real bond with their child would think is good.
Yea, that’s a good point. I guess in my head since I have no real use for an AI they all seem equally stupid, but the birthday thing does make it seem even worse.
The out of touch part is the way they try to convince us to give them our data.
The reasoning they give us never really makes a lot of sense and bounces off the public, but they keep doing it. They might as well not bother, just declare “this is how it is, deal with it” instead of trying to pretend there’s any good reason.
There’s an illusion of popularity while AI is artificially cheap, but as the costs of both subscriptions and hardware balloons the huge userbase these AI companies tout to their investors are going to become a lot less interested. The reasoning they give won’t actually hold up in the face of price hikes, because for most people AI is a toy and a way to cheat on homework.
But popularity never really mattered. They could just say “this is how it is, deal with it” and not bother trying to convince people AI is the future.
This is hilariously absurd to me
Usually people install custom ROMs specifically to avoid surveillance and random crap running in the background and improve performance, but this is the complete opposite.
I can’t imagine why you would want any of that. There’s nothing in my life or nearby imagined lives that’s so arduous I need an AI “agent” to take care of it.
This supports the hypothesis that it’s driven by out of touch rich people who are used to having an executive assistant. They can’t imagine doing daily tasks because they don’t. “Making a dinner reservation? Myself?? How gauche. Get Amanda to do it.”
They then think everyone is like them.
I don’t think it’s that they’re out of touch. I think they really want your data. Imagine AI sending a screenshot of your screen every second back to whoever made it and whoever can be bothered to listen in. I think everything else, like the marketing and hype around it, is consensus building.
I’m sure they want the data for money and other nefarious purposes. But as the other person said, I think the way they try to sell people on it reveals they’re out of touch. And maybe a little that AI’s offerings aren’t actually that good.
But a commercial that’s like “it can write a birthday note for your daughter!” is a bleak reflection of someone’s world. That’s not going to resonate with most people. That’s the kind of thing a soulless husk with no real bond with their child would think is good.
Yea, that’s a good point. I guess in my head since I have no real use for an AI they all seem equally stupid, but the birthday thing does make it seem even worse.
The out of touch part is the way they try to convince us to give them our data.
The reasoning they give us never really makes a lot of sense and bounces off the public, but they keep doing it. They might as well not bother, just declare “this is how it is, deal with it” instead of trying to pretend there’s any good reason.
Does it though? Lemmy is a bubble, unfortunately normies are using this shit.
Hell, even this site has been inundated with pro-AI sentiment over the past few weeks.
There’s an illusion of popularity while AI is artificially cheap, but as the costs of both subscriptions and hardware balloons the huge userbase these AI companies tout to their investors are going to become a lot less interested. The reasoning they give won’t actually hold up in the face of price hikes, because for most people AI is a toy and a way to cheat on homework.
But popularity never really mattered. They could just say “this is how it is, deal with it” and not bother trying to convince people AI is the future.
Wonder how fast that drains the battery