Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant
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50 points
8 comments
June 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
cyanydeez
"We forced all the employees into AI, and now apparently, our internal AI usage is high; this means this project will get high usage from general consumers." When your dogfood is really an opiate, you might have a problem.
CrzyLngPwd
Don't all businesses with AI want people addicted to it?
ChrisArchitect
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374079
analogpixel
Simple, add an Anime Girl that pretends to like you.
warumdarum
They botched the phone, thry botched AI, just overall so obsessed with themselves, they tend to forget the customers