Google is updating the Play Store with AI-powered app reviews and curated spaces. The company hopes it’ll be a place for people to just hang out.
What a fucking pointless feature. Can’t fix their shitty auto update, but they can roll out some garbage no one fucking needs.
What’s wrong with auto-update?
It doesn’t really work well. There are times when several apps will have an update available but Google play won’t show that until you force it to check for updates.
I’d like to say I’ve never seen that but that sounds like something you wouldn’t notice unless you checked for it. I decided to turn off auto-updates altogether because I didn’t like taking updates that took away functionality or changed the layout for no reason.
I like making sure I’m up to date with software I used but I get where you’re coming from. I just checked to see how my apps are doing and 11 had updates.
How about the feature, does it sound like something you’d use?
What feature?
The curated spaces.
I’m rarely even in the store so I don’t care. And by rarely I mean I think I’ve used the store like 3 times since seeing up my phone.
Curated spaces where we can…interact with bots?
I mean we already have social media and most people don’t particularly like bots THERE, why would anyone want them impersonating people in MORE places?
Now, if someone fed a bot all of the manuals, faq’s, and support topics for an app like TREK: Total Interface and made it known it was a support chatbot, maybe I’d use THAT when I wanted help with the app because it’s complex enough that such a thing might be USEFUL, but otherwise? No.
AI bots should serve people, not the other way around.
Legitimizing bot reviews? Cool cool cool