Its not really the ads that are the signal so much as the fact that they are slapping ads onto it BEFORE it has developed enough to actually be a useful product. They have direct competition that is not ad supported and they just “aren’t there yet” in terms of making a product that everyone feels like they need to engage with regardless of ads. Slapping ads on something before its actually demonstrated the ability to succeed as a product is just rolling the dice to see if it makes money magically appear. Its desperation.

Jesus, They really just need to start over.

that is precisely the goal here.

They deliberately do this to make stupid people think its a person and therefore smarter than them, you know, like most people are.

And then they integrate that solution back into the operating system so that its all just as exposed as if it were locally stored anyways.

Oh no, I am going to get left behind by not letting a machine capable of writing a solid B- middle school term paper do my job for me.

That’s exactly the problem. People who are too stupid to see that AI is actually pretty bad at everything it does think its a fucking genius and they wonder why we still pay people to do stuff. Sadly a LOT of stupid people are in positions of authority in our world.

What roms does Apple let you install on iPhones?