Good morning, and welcome to Enshittification Tuesday. We've got quite a selection for your perusal today, and shockingly it isn't all related to AI.
We've got:
Microsoft adds AI spyware at the OS level
iTerm2 adds AI spyware at the Terminal level
FireTV interface has been sneakily tweaked to automatically subscribe users to new services when downloading certain apps (yes, there's a confirmation screen, but blink and you'll miss it & might get double-subscribed)
@thomas@ramsey@kboyd@mdhughes It’s optional for now. Once they make some money from it, it will be enabled by default with opt-out. Then it will be permanently on with no opt-out. Then the entire “terminal industry” is using it and you have no choice. Our freedom to choose alternatives is constantly being eroded.
You can argue whether or not a program that is watching everything you do and sending details to a 3rd party is spyware or not.
@ramsey@kboyd@thomas@grmpyprogrammer Yeah. This is the problem. My company works with extremely sensitive data (HR tech) and our systems are set up not to allow access to ChatGPT - no autopilot integrations or anything. Although #iTerm2 integration is opt-in, I think the fact that you can opt in is going to cause an issue with CorpSec. Unless they can control the configuration of AI, it may be that they will have to prevent its installation entirely. A plugin would have been better.