I'm not sure why there's so much hate for this. It appears to be a completely optional feature, you don't have to use it if you don't want.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Lemmy saw "AI" in the title and kneejerked, as it tends to do.
Did someone say AI?
How dare you sir/ma'am? There are children reading this
It may or may not be optional, but even if it's optional it's a modern tech company so it'll be default on, mostly because someone at HQ wants to be able to walk into their yearly review and say 'I 'led' the team that developed this 'feature' that a full 35% of users didn't turn off, so that means I increased customer satisfaction by 70%. Please don't fire me.' It's change for change's sake at best.
Sure, but does that matter if the feature works and fulfills a need that users have been asking about for years?
They are so desperate to find a use of AI that people have no option but to use.
Idk about that, I rooted my Pixel and now Google won't let me play with the built-in AI apps.
And nothing of value was lost.
TBH, marketing this as AI is just ridiculous. It's literally a bunch of if/else statements.
You are not wrong, I mean, the whole AI term is just a joke, is nothing but a fancier algorithm
It's all just to impress investors. I don't dispute that everyone is scrambling towards AI, but machine learning isn't AI, most of it was barely machine learning. This, definitely isn't AI. I used to have weather summaries on my vBulletin board. If there's a sunny.gif, echo "it's sunny, with highs of" . {high}β¦
In strict computer science terms, ML falls under the AI umbrella, so it is AI. But not all AI is ML.
Oh? Thanks for teaching me. I thought ML was the precursor to AI, but not actually AI.
Honestly out of all of the uses of AI... I'm okay with this one.
I think it's a stretch to call it AI, it's the same thing that Niagara Launcher does. It barely even qualifies as Machine Learning and I say that as someone who thinks it's very very cool.
Fuuuuuck outta eah
Google was never good at innovating and it shows.
Fuck. I swapped not that long ago because I was tired of Samsung's bullshit. Guess I'll swap again to something else when this phone starts to die.
Pixels are pretty easy to get custom ROMs on. I'm sure you can find something that doesn't include this.
For now. Google didn't release the Pixel-specific stuff with the Android 16 release.
I can highly recommend GrapheneOS!
Aren't Pixels already filled with AI? Why is this the thing that tips you over the edge?
When I swapped, Gemini wasn't being shoved down our throats.
I think Sony is one of the few major (in terms of brand name recognition) manufacturers that is yet to jump on the AI hype train. It has the standard Android stuff like Gemini, but hasn't done much else. Other than that, all I can really think of are smaller manufacturers like Fairphone that don't have the resources to develop anything themselves. All the major Chinese brands are full of this stuff, as are companies like Nothing and Motorola which took a while to get there.
I can't get rid of this phone fast enough I guess.
Thanks for the downvotes, it's a Pixel 6A that may blow up any day.
Just flash GrapheneOS!
It's a fine idea but I'm concerned that it will not work with my banking and work apps, then I'm kinda stuck. Everything works fine under Graphene for you?
Yeah works fine for me. Although only two banks in my country apparently throw a fit over non stock phones. The fit being biometrics not working. So YMMV. I'd say it'd worth a try. Revolut also works for me so if you'd want you can link your bank with that and use it.
Your bank has a website, I assume?