Right? I don’t want an AI chatbot, I want a natural language oral shell scripting language with APIs for all the major services I use and good verbal man pages. The AI can be a separate tool on a separate hotword that I’ll probably only ever use to ask for help debugging the other one.
MS is also trying to be the one-stop-shop for people wanting to access AI-gen stuff through an abstracted provider-agnostic interface.
This is kinda the plot the later Callahan’s books by Spider Robinson. Man-eating aliens who believe the only ethical way to slaughter is to trick the meat into slaughtering itself, and so they infiltrate humanity to encourage that.
As much as I hate the AI-gens, this is probably a good thing after that poor kid got talked into killing himself. I assume Google et al do similar already.
Now, if the cops react to being called for a person in crisis by tazing somebody, that’s a different problem.