AI needs to stop

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A notification that your load is done is actually convenient. It's typically also paired with some sensors that can let you know if you need more detergent or to run a cleaning cycle on the washer.
Mine also lets you set the wash parameters via the app if you want, which is helpful for people who benefit from the accessibility features of the phone. Difficult to adjust the font size or contrast on a washing machine, or hear it's chime if you have hearing problems.

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I see ai actually in anything other than promo material.

My brother have you been in a deep slumber for the past two years? Windows is filled with AI, so is Microsoft Office, Google search results, Gmail and Docs, the Android assistant was replaced by Gemini, Canva is filled with AI, all Adobe products have AI image generation, Samsung's S24 line is exactly the same as the S23 but with AI slapped in, you go to a subway station and half of the ads are made with AI with atrocious teeth, fast food drive thru machines are now AI, pretty much any online customer support is an embedded version of ChatGPT. Entire news sites and blogs have the posts generated by AI - things got so bad YouTube videos with millions of views in the true crime genre were telling fake stories created by AI, with images and narration generated by AI, and the comments were mostly AI.

And don't get me started on Reddit, if you mention ANY software now you get about 10 immediate replies from bots that say some generic thing like "That's a great question, I like using insert website AI for this as it works really well and is super affordable!".

You're either extremely bad at noticing AI usage - in which case god bless your soul but for the love of all that's holy please start trying to recognize it - or you haven't been online in a long time.

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It's in DuckDuckGo
It's in Google search
It pops up on tons of websites as a chat bot
It's crowbarred into Windows now
It's Apple Intelligence which is baked into iOS 18 (disabling it gave me 20-25% of my battery back)
It's in Arc browser (easily disabled)

If you're able to avoid it altogether and not be forced to constantly disable it everywhere, I commend whatever you're doing. I see it scattered everywhere and I consider myself a niche user that runs their own Lemmy instance and doesn't actively use any of the big social networks.

People are complaining because it's permeating everything while offering little to no value to the end user. The massive divide has arrived where the value to the shareholders is all that matters, and the tech companies doing it aren't even remotely thinking about the user experience or benefit. I've been a dev in tech for 18+ years and I've never seen the field this desperate and stagnant when it comes to good ideas.

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Those features are literally unrelated to AI, just so you know. It’s comparing sensor outputs to a table. Like all modern laundry machines. The inclusion of “AI” on the label is purely to take advantage of people like you who instantly believe whatever they’re told, even of it’s as outlandish as “your laundry has been optimized” lol

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Everything else aside, you need to clean your washing machine. Cloths shouldn’t be smelling like mildew after less than a day in it.

A bit of exaggeration to make a point.

Modern washing machines are also pretty quiet.

Not when they're a room away from the master bedroom. Having it start up in the middle of the night would be either annoying, terrifying, or both.

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Strangely, that is a lot of who is complaining. It was a Faustian bargin: draw furry porn and earn money but never be allowed to use your art in a professional sense ever again.

Then AI art came and replaced them, so it became loose-loose.

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Issue is, that 8 hours people spend in "real" jobs are a big hindrance, and could be spent on doing the art instead, and most of those ghouls now want us to do overtime for the very basics. Worst case scenario, it'll be a creativity drought, with idea guys taking up the place of real artists by using generative AI. Best case scenario is AI boom totally collapsing, all commercial models become expensive to use. Seeing where the next Trump administration will take us, it's second gilded age + heavy censorship + potential deregulation around AI.

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so that specific LG machine can detect the water hardness, what fabrics are used in the clothes it should launder, what detergents are available?

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Like others mentioned this one actually makes sense. Letting you know your washing is done so you can move it to the drier and letting you know its dry already so you can fold it is actually super helpful. I studied at an uni that had a connected laundry room so I didnt have to go all the way there to check if the machine was done with my laundry.

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I don't know where else you could find enough work to sustain yourself other than furry porn and hentai before Ai. Post Ai, even that is gone.

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My home is already plenty dumb enough without me exerting that level of control.

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Do you have an example of an AI system being deployed to do these things or is it, as I said, pure hypothetical tech bro logic?

But yeah it basically squirts some water in at the top, then analyzes the water that reaches the bottom (and how much) to infer the fabric types. That same information is then considered when dispensing detergent and fabric softener. Simple sensors and tables

macniel

that's pretty cool then.

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It already sings a song for 30 seconds when the load is done. I understand a notification at a laundromat, but what good is that really in your home?

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I think we're running out of advancements that make life better, now all technology does is make production cheaper.

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Get fukken ratio'd about it lmao

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Not as bad as the IR touch screens. They had a IR field protected just above the surface of the screen that would be broken by your finger, such would register a touch at that location.

Or a fly landing on your screen and walking a few steps could drag a file into the recycle bin.

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Some people have their laundry machines far away, some people wear headphones while waiting, there are many reasons a notification helps

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AI needs to slop! Embrace the slop! And give us money for more slop!

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Yeah it doesn’t seem like a bad washer, just don’t appreciate them jumping on the AI bandwagon. It’s manipulative