AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices
But what if I don't want them to?
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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Didn't you read the headline?
I feel like I'm getting the last laugh for being childfree and, how shall we say, no longer young. I'm just hoping to run down the clock before things get too shitty. But they seem to be trying to speedrun this shit.
So we're all being stalked by tech companies?
Cool, then we’ll just openly fight you my dude
So... instead of creating a product, proving it's good, and getting sales that way, they're using rapist tactics and arguments!? No red flags there!
They are definitely using "just lie back and let it happen" type of language
Welp, it's time to build the BlackWall.
I refuse.
I'm sorry, how is it inescapable? If I follows me across devices, I just won't use those devices. So how's it going to follow me then?
You don't need to use devices. Other people are, so you will be part of it. Any device in your proximity will listen to you, any photos other people take of you will identify you, public cameras or facitities will surveil you, smart energy meters will know what you do in your home...
That is why the position of "I don't care, because I don't use that tech." or "It is peoples choice." Is so useless... We need strong regulation... Worldwide.
I never much cared for other people anyways.
Damn, who knew the flip phones from 2005 would make a come back
Sounds like a qoute out of a dystopian movie.
Cue the pirates of the Caribbean scene/ where captain Barbosa tells you you’re “in one”
You best start believing dystopian sci-fi stories, you’re in one
Fucking GOAT.
With a New Text Document, no less
Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of 'new text document' and avoid watermarks:
(Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added 'cyber'. Also, here's a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)
Fucking GOAT.
I've had that shitty copy saved for about 2 years now, it's good to have a slick clean version instead <3
CEO translation: "Please buy our 6g equipment: here's a spurious justification". I remember how VR/AR was supposed to be the justification for why we needed 5g speeds.
Autonomous vehicles too. I know because I wrote some of the patents ten years ago for Qualcomm and Ericsson on these exact topics. The world felt like a much different place back then.
Remote surgerical procedures as well. At least it was hyped here in Japan, anyway.
Challenge accepted.
Precisely. We mightn’t be the ones but in the end they’ll get beaten.
I read the whole article and did not find an answer for a very simple question: what are benefits for users? The whole speech is about how we CAN put agents to all the devices, etc. without answering the simple question WHY should we do it. There are a lot of words about how can google and friends use the data for advertising. But nothing about motivation of users to allow it. He is talking about economical reasons but it will work if and only if users will have economical reasons to put agents on their devices. As of today I do not see a lot of usage of autonomous agents outside of the professional work like software development or ms word automation. What are reasons for people to make these agents a part of their life? The whole speech is built on top of the assumption that happens without a word about why should it. Am I missing something?
There are no benefits to users.
There are benefits to shareholders.
You're not missing anything. Execs have bought into AI hype and consider it a given that AI will be transformative, so they're not bothering to think about use cases or real world applications. After all, the "user" is beneath them; so the user should just be happy and grateful for the opportunity.
This is why people like him hate/fear regulation. Regulating this is the people's way (in a functioning democracy) to put hard barriers on what these people are permitted to do in order to squeeze out another dime.
Still unable to make a steady profit, eh?
Yeah, that's what The Borg said.
Makes sense, they are assimilating everything in their grasp by force and without consent.
"Pws comswume 🥺"
What a great way to sell AI to the public
More “Software brain” BS. Sure, many/most people are unthinkingly consumeristic. But it’s been a weird few decades for the tech industry where a lot of its ideas have been taken up as “the inevitable future”. There’s no guarantee that that relationship between the population and the industry holds, and the industry sure is full of people that have only lived in that bubble in time.
Better start building the Blackwall.
Great! Let's do that to him, and then kill him.
the only way AI to survive is datamining people and selling it to ad companies.