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AI is making smartphones verifiably worse by design

Smartphone manufacturers are overloading their devices with AI features in an effort to control how you interface with both the device and information at large. That’s not good.

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Is Apple Intelligence something the iPhone even needs?

On Friday, Wes had asked me if I wanted to write a piece on what I thought AI was good for, versus what it is decidedly not good for. Yes, he knows exactly what he was doing with that “harmless pitch.”

He is, after all, someone who routinely tags me in Slack with some sort of very, very stupid AI innovation just to get my reaction. And who can blame him: I take the bait every time.

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