I had a similar experience when I tried to search through reviews on amazon on the mobile website.

The search box is gone and you're supposed to ask Rufus now.

I was very upset about this. I had a rental car and I needed to enter on the map where I wanted to go. Even with a damn keyboard it wanted Siri. It’s just gps and i had to dig my phone out and do the typing there instead.

Apple considers siri essential for CarPlay and I don’t really disagree. Don’t forget that a big part of the design of CarPlay tries to explicitly discourage tactile use while driving, with siri as the alternative input/output method.

Is this maybe dependent on country? I have used carplay, and don't have siri enabled.

I used CarPlay yesterday with Siri disabled. Am I missing something?

i feel relatively comfortable with carply + basic siri, leaving apple intelligence off. basic siri is pretty limited in scope of what it has access to and what it can do.

while it's an arbitrary line ive drawn, basic siri doesn't feel like "ai" in the same sense as context-aware assistants do for me.

On our car I can hook up my iPhone via Bluetooth to listen to audio books and music, bypassing carplay.

With Apple intelligence turned on, when I take a screenshot on my iPhone, it wants me to do this search that goes to temu, instead of the text selection that it used to do. So I turned it off, but I have to turn it back on to have auto translation in iMessage.

Fallback states are generally a ton of work that don't benefit the direction that the PM or broader business would want to go anyway.

It's a pet peeve of mine that we often say "devs" when we really mean "the business". It seems to be gamers who started this language. They'll even call the publisher "the devs".

No one wants? I understand normies on Facebook saying that, but you are on HN. How do you keep that position with the evidence getting thrown at you daily?

Nobody using it is actually the ideal outcome. AI features are added, at no additional cost to the consumer, to extract money from investors. If customers began using the product, this feature would actually start having an ongoing cost.

Alternative hypothesis: people do gradually use these features, but HN became a weird anti-AI bubble for some reason.

I mean, many of the features had previous pre-AI attempts. They all sucked much more. This is the first time they have a remote chance of working (but in many cases, timidity or cheapening out is still making them barely usable - which is why 99% of the cases it's still much, much better to throw one of the three SOTA LLMs at the app to operate it (or on its data) from the outside).

I really do wonder if the market is being irrational or if we just cannot see what they are

I suspect that many people dislike AI but are begrudgingly using it. I would put money very few people are completely avoiding it. It's very hard to avoid now anyways.

Maybe the AI company strategy is really just "make it so invasive in life it's so difficult to avoid and expensive enough to revert that companies and governments will never go back anyways"

Many people do like AI tools and use them regularly. ChatGPT has nearly a billion weekly active users.

It's just that another group of people absolutely hates the idea of AI and wants it to go away.

we’ve reached the stage of market consolidation where corporations dictate consumer behavior, not vice versa

This whole "nobody wants" narrative is getting tiresome. It is provably false, and is just a rhetorical tool.

My heart bleeds for Rovo’s product managers. They must also see that nobody actually wants or needs or even likes Rovo.

Add `udm=14` to the Google search query string... e.g. I changed my browser's default search engine shortcut.

`google.com##.hdzaWe` blocks the AI summary. This is better than udm=14 because it doesn't suppress the other sometimes-useful non-AI Google answer blocks.

For single queries adding `-fuck` works.

Switched to Qwant because of that .. (corporate laptop does not allow changing the search engine urls, only changing the engine itself)

Honestly ? Not a stressy move, the major things that changes is that the IA bullshit is gone

Use a different search engine such as Ecosia or noai.duckduckgo.com

I have found that Element Hider and similar extensions will also block some of the worst features in the browser.

So the next iteration of surveillance features is to silently double down on users that turn off surveillance, because why would they do that unless they have something to hide? Better flag this user for extra super-secret surveillance and an immediate notification to authorities.

This. Debian+KDE. No AI and nothing happens on my computer that I don't know about.

Currently the best theory I have is that China bought a bunch of accounts from India to promote anti AI propaganda.

The people not corrupted by this are loving AI.

From concerns about AI taking jobs to people upvoting memes made by AI, it's getting obvious the slop is getting smaller.

And anyone who knew how LLMs worked in 2023 were fine with the slop. It was only normies who didn't understand how it worked.