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.
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.
Lemmy saw “AI” in the title and kneejerked, as it tends to do.
Did someone say AI?
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?