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Microsoft's shady practicies of Office 365 subscription tiers (youtu.be)
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Summarizing video showing MS' horrible practicies regarding Office 365's subscription tiers, where they basically forcefully upgrade you to a higher tier subscription, and at the same time renaming the tier names so you won't notice...

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They’re speed running their product enshitification.

Video summary by Ollama AI:

The video discusses several shady practices employed by Microsoft, including:

  1. Forced upselling: Microsoft changed the plan and pricing of a user's Office 365 subscription without their consent, effectively forcing them to pay more for features they didn't want.
  2. Renaming and hiding plans: Microsoft renamed an existing plan (e.g., "Personal" to "Classic") and made it less visible in the user interface, while introducing a new plan with similar features at a higher price point.
  3. Hallucination problem: The AI-powered feature "co-pilot" generated fabricated information, which is a known issue in generative AI.
  4. Overpromising free benefits: Microsoft sales representatives touted "free AI credits" as a benefit of the more expensive plan, but these credits were not actually free and had limited value.
  5. Misleading users about pricing changes: The price hike was effectively hidden by renaming and rebranding existing plans, making it unclear whether the user's subscription had actually changed in price.

The video suggests that Microsoft engaged in these practices to push customers into using features they might not want or need, rather than providing transparent and honest information about their plans and pricing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this using ollama on the console?

I've been missing out on great ai use cases if I can just ask it to summarize a YouTube link.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No. I used Open WebUI.

https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

It’s a UI for ollama. You can share links and ask it questions about the link provided or upload a document such as user manuals to get answers from such documents.

It’s a great tool that utilize Ollama to its full potential.