People lost control of their smart thermostats
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The sad thing is, all this smart stuff is really cool and home automation can be fun and convenient. Unfortunately, it's all spyware and actively working against you. I'd love an AI assistant. Just one that I control and not some corporate overlord somewhere.
There's an open source AI assistant, called Mycroft, that you could look into. I don't know enough to address all privacy issues.
I've been on the Mycroft newsletter since they started the project. Unfortunately, it has been a slow development...
^^ A million times this.
From cell phones to look up anything on the internet pretty much anywhere on the planet I want to be, smart appliances that know what I want and need before I do, self-driving cars so I can get hours of my commute back, even cybernetic implants to improve memory and reflects. I wanted it all.
And then I grew up and realized even if the people that invent this stuff have good intentions, the people that ultimately control it will be the most sociopathic among the population.
Cool shit dreamed up by smart people used by retards to make everything worse. I don't exactly know when it started, but the trend is here to stay until we string up Christmas lights to declare victory if you know what I mean.
That's the sad part about this shitty future we live in.
Its filled with neat toys that should be making everyone's lives better and easier simply by their existence, but its marred horribly by also being constantly used for our detriment and eventually maliciously.
Have you NEVER seen the Terminator movies?
Yeah, in 2 John Connor gets an AI assistant and that works out pretty good for him!
Had to get a pirated firmware upgrade to work properly though.
And it is destroyed by the time the credits roll.
stands on one foot