Google and Microsoft added AI tools to their office suites and raised prices. This suggests either standalone AI demand was so low that they made it mandatory, or the tools are so valuable they expect users to embrace the price hike after trying them. Which do you think it is?🤔 - ThreadSky

carnage4life.bsky.social • 42 days ago

Google and Microsoft added AI tools to their office suites and raised prices. This suggests either standalone AI demand was so low that they made it mandatory, or the tools are so valuable they expect users to embrace the price hike after trying them.

Which do you think it is?🤔

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waqas.bsky.social•42 days ago

It makes more sense for them to position/price/package a smarter and more powerful suite in totality, than try to sell a standalone AI thing. This just simplifies things for everyone, really.

andrewdsweet.bsky.social•42 days ago

Actually both?

oakpotato.com•42 days ago

They added copilot to my existing O365 subscription and I still haven’t used it.

metapgmr.bsky.social•42 days ago

No previous technology has been as mesmerizing as generative AI while offering so little immediate business value

boteball.bsky.social•42 days ago

On MS' own comment board they're getting strong pushback from academics and others who CANNOT incorporate A.I. in their workflow, yet there's no opt out.

jfranek.bsky.social•42 days ago

I'd like to give them the benefit of doubt and say it's B, but I'm not going to.

romabysen.bsky.social•42 days ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and say "not the latter".

daniel.lavedonio.social•42 days ago

I hate these dark patterns hidden in Google Cloud where there are a lot of hidden parameters you have to figure out the right steps to make a certain setting appear or to be able to change it

yeep.bsky.social•42 days ago

They're doing it to boost their metrics. With it enabled by default, they can now claim to have thousands (millions?) of users using their AI crap.

gwitek.com•42 days ago

These tools can really boost productivity, but people need invest time in learning them. Throwing them at users and saying “here you go, use it” is not helpful, people will just be disappointed by the limitations and quirks of LLMs

eikendev.bsky.social•41 days ago

If these tools were truly irresistible, forcing companies to do a free trial would make more sense than adjusting their bundles. Feels more like a way to guarantee adoption than confidence in their standalone appeal.

robcube.bsky.social•42 days ago

Possible the perspective is that laypeople don’t see the value in them so they’ve pushed it out to ensure we’re all on more equal footing?

verbatim.bsky.social•42 days ago

or they're losing money on everyone who is actually using it so now they're trying to fish for a bunch of people paying for the service w/o ever using it.

robcube.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yeah, just pushing out the naïve viewpoint 🤣 The whole thing is kinda weird. Even their search engines are pushing AI over search content these days.

adaminthailand.bsky.social•42 days ago

I uninstalled copilot on my new laptop, and then on my phone. Not even sure how it got on my phone. AI is useless

chris.chabot.dev•41 days ago

Really does give protection racket vibes doesn’t it

saemg.bsky.social•42 days ago

They can't sell it, the use cases just aren't there

scottcresswell.bsky.social•42 days ago

I cancelled 365 instead of paying the extra for Co-pilot, so I’m going with unpopular.

I know in our office (I work in education) people talk about using ChatGPT occasionally, but even it likely sees almost no use.

rajas.bsky.social•42 days ago

Can’t sell em

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•42 days ago

It's telling that they enabled these features with little to no fanfare (can't count ToS updates because corp users don't read those), and tend to bury the toggle in settings.

It's impossible to know actual disable metrics, but I'm guessing lots of people do so immediately after learning about it.

pilvikala.bsky.social•42 days ago

My guess is most people just don't need this in their busy lives and don't care about what we're excited about in our tech social bubble.

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