59 points

Sorry, not interested in conversing with my lightswitch.

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I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.

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OPEN THE POD BAY DOOR, CLAUDE!

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Alexa, turn on the lights.

Sure, here are 5 tips for turning lights on!

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Your order for 12 WYXXGIHX LED lightbulbs will arrive in 2 days.

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Wise guys. Nice.

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Did you know that one simple tip for turning your lights on is to use a smart home device or smart light bulbs? You can control them with your smartphone or voice commands through a virtual assistant, making it easy to turn your lights on and off without needing to physically flip a switch!

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Amazon hoped the unit would one day generate a profit by users spending more money somehow

anybody that’s used an alexa for more than about 5 minutes should have noticed that pretty much everything it can do that’s more complicated than setting a timer to tell you when your chicken nuggets are done is designed to push you into the amazon services ecosystem

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The money has decided that LLMs are profitable, so you must pay for it.

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22 points

Amazon can serve itself up a heaping bowl of dicks, and suck on all of them.

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“May they run through the dick forest with their mouths wide open”

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