Vivaldi anti-AI stance: CEO says users reject it
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50%-100% user growth puts Vivaldi anti-AI stance in focus as its CEO says users reject browser AI. See why the shift matters

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      22 hours ago

      In a mechanical sense not a whole lot, but in both the reason why they are being focused on and what it does to the cost of computer parts they are quite similar. NFTs, Metaverse, and AI have all gotten the focus they have because the tech industry has been chasing the high of the internet and later smart phone booms, they all want the next big thing but they are all ignorant to fact that the only reason said booms worked was because of the broad utility which AI and NFTs have little of.

    • SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 day ago

      NFT tried to be an alternative to currency, But it almost endangered the economy and general affordability guarantees the same way AI used up water sources and federally protected forests

      • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        To be clear NFTs tried to be a replacement to traditional proof of asset ownership like paper deeds and such. Then a bunch of people used that to create contracts for ownership of links to assets and sold that to speculative investors, aka morons, and thus another actually neat technology with a good niche dies.

        Similar to the blockchain being an amazing technology that could instantly verify transactions with complete accuracy; and instead got used for alternative currencies.

        Cryptocurrencies (blockchain-backed contract ownership of assigned mathematical conclusions) tried to be currency, NFTs in popular culture tried to be art (as in how art is actually bought and sold in the real world for money laundering.)

        AI (GAN including LLMs), like blockchain and NFTs, has its extremely specific narrow use case for society - one that is currently overblown and is being used incorrectly in all parts of society, and wasting the resources used and tarnishing the technology at the same time.