Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal (www.404media.co)
from HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to programming@programming.dev on 03 Jun 17:48
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Key citation (emphasis mine):

Overview and Plan with Project Lobster,” seen by 404 Media has a subheading called “ClawPilot Overall Plan,” which notes “three phases” to its launch plan. The first phase is “Make people addicted.”

“Continue shipping the standalone ClawPilot experience. Pilot the UX, grow the user base, and build the skill and tool ecosystem that makes people depend on it daily. This is already happening organically,” the document says. Omar Shahine, the Microsoft executive leading the project, adds that in its pilot with Microsoft employees, they have seen “Daily Usage with High Retention and intensity of usage (chats, queries, workflows, skills).” The additional phases of the plan involve connecting ClawPilot to other AI tools and eventually adding new features.

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renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net on 03 Jun 18:16 next collapse

“Acquire -> Extract” has been the Silicon Valley playbook for decades, now. The enshittification process is just more blatant and accelerated with AI.

cecilkorik@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 18:34 next collapse

Capitalism has cooked these people’s brains. There is nothing of value left inside them.

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml on 03 Jun 18:58 next collapse

Instagram and TikTok already made hundreds of thousands of users addicted, also causing suicides.

The mechanism behind addiction in LLMs, Instagram and TikTok is similar to the one of slot machines: variable rewards, rapid feedback loops, and the exploitation of deep-seated pattern-seeking tendencies.

HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org on 04 Jun 04:04 collapse

I’d love to learn more about that.

These companies basically have found backdoors into our brain.

Dumhuvud@programming.dev on 03 Jun 19:52 next collapse

“Make people addicted.”

Just in case anyone was ever doubting the fact that the people behind these GenAI products are complete and utter fucking scum.

towerful@programming.dev on 03 Jun 20:03 next collapse

Sure, or make a good product?
That’s what other companies do. They make a good product, and people then depend on it.
The shitty VC companies then enshitify.
The actual “we believe in our product” companies continue making a good product.

talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 17:07 collapse

To me it looks like “we believe in our product” companies are an endangered species

Doomsider@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 03:01 next collapse

We put drug peddlers in prison for trying to addict people. The fact that they are not joking is proof of their malice. That is classic criminal behavior.

RamenJunkie@midwest.social on 04 Jun 17:26 collapse

AI Companies: “We want to get people addicted.”

Also AI Companies: “Do not ever discuss anything even remotely pornographic.”

I am confused as to their goal here.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net on 04 Jun 17:50 collapse

get the money while there’s a christofascist government in charge