Normally I'm not one to make a big deal about overly-intrusive AI. Google putting AI summary at the top of the search order? Meh, sometimes a useful synopsis, sometimes just something to scroll past along with sponsored results. Copilot putting up little notifications encouraging me to use AI? Annoying, but you can click the X or just ignore them. Amazon took it a step further, and this one grinds my gears. My Echo Show 8 started plugging Alexa+ at the end of responses or on the screen a couple months ago, and it was a few weeks before the advertising confirmed my suspicion that it was an AI platform. Whatever, I didn't want it enough to opt in and ignored the advertising. Then it integrated the AI without an opt-in. Again, I rolled my eyes at the slightly more talkative software. It was ...
