The only active AI feature is the automatic alt text one, and that’s entirely local. The second one is a sidebar that will just open AI chat websites, which you could already do by just, ya know, looking up the webpages the regular way. No data is getting sent anywhere so far.
I take it they finally moved on from 1990 in the government?
This has been available for most of the year. What took any tech news org so long to even awknowledge its existence?
“Our users, who don’t have as much free time as they did during the pandemic, didn’t binge watch a 13 episode show, one hour per episode, the very day it came out like they did during lockdown? Cancel the show its a flop”
Fucking Aquaman
Yeah, that’s odd. I could swear Google had something in its terms that specified you couldn’t mix its results with other search engines.
I quite like it precisely because it provided no recommendations. I’m not enticed to waste time watching something I wasn’t interested in 3 seconds ago. If I want to watch something I have to look it up and that’s usually the end of it.
Doesn’t the compatibility layer mean its restricted to its own wine prefix? Or am I misunderstanding?
If that were the case, wouldn’t the entire Fediverse be against it? Since they can’t really be deleted because it gets sent everywhere.
This is technically another jean meme
Its all about the infraction point
Thats great, now try that with acquaintances, coworkeea, classmates or companies that only chat through WhatsApp. I wish I could go nuclear but WA is a necessity.
Doesn’t seem like loss porn central yet
I do know what you mean. But I’m taking this in another direction to point out that, Christ, a lot of writers seem unable to not make the male and female leads of anything fall in love for no reason. Literally most of the forced romance is hetero romance.
Also, when the prompt is modified to include “native american” it seems to mostly return the most stereotypically dressed people possible. Like wearing traditional garbs and headdresses when everyone else portrayed is wearing setting appropriate clothing.
It says coming soon for me
If you don’t live in a place with WhatsApp as the dominant chat app I don’t think you could get it. I don’t have FB, Instagram, Snapchat, Google, Outlook, or any form of social media, I am as disconnected as can be. But WA is truly inescapable.
Need to ask a very specific question about taxes? The government support person only answers through WhatsApp. Need to file an insurance report and even check if it was approved? WhatsApp. Need to schedule a certification exam? Whatsapp. Hell, more and more companies and government services are moving to WA only customer service/support, like not even help you if you show up in person and in some cases their phone lines (which are “always busy”) just direct you to their WhatsApp.
Its also the only way of reaching coworkers/classmates. Not for like socializing or messing around, but for group work, file sharing, scheduling meetings, sharing important/urgent announcements, etc. And good luck getting mere acquaintances to install a secondary chat app just to talk to you, when we can barely get our friends to install adblockers in their browsers. Well, there are other secondary ways to reach them, Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs, but we both likely agree on what to make of these ones.
I hate Facebook and am aware of their practices, but they have reached an absolute dominance over communication in most of the world. You can’t just ignore them in day to day life.
Its hard to get others to do so, for seemingly no reason. I have Signal installed, have had it for years, have told all my contacts about it. Only like 3 installed it, but quickly forgot about it. I still have to have WhatsApp installed to not fall off the world so they end up texting me from WA anyway.
Its not like SMS vs Signal where there is a clear benefit to the average Joe to use Signal, there’s no difference between Signal and WhatsApp to the average person so they will just keep using WhatsApp out of habit.
Why is the preview pic two politicians kissing aggresively