Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.
Deleted my 15 year old account. I'm not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.
Lately it's been companies using liberal licenses to build their product up really fast and then doing a rig pull bcz "oh no we can't have competition!".
But it's also from the user perspective...
Freedom to not pay a lonely dev that's been coding on the project for "fun" or "for the community" for 15 years.
I love free software, but if y:all want it to succeed you need to support the devs!
I just signed up for lemmy.world today. Last week I got my first account suspension in 15 years because some automated tool didn't like my joke about the Boeing Starliner and how the Astronauts should be concerned regarding the recent history of Boeing. Reason for suspension was for making threats. It was more like threats to Boeing's reputation. Deleted all my top comments and closed the account. Reddit is dead.
Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp ( www.reuters.com )
Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.
He deserves better ( lemmy.world )
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