Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/20/logitech-mouse-has-a-dedicated-ai-button.html
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Not digging the attempts at assimilation.
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Will not buy.
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The nice thing is that the button that summons what people increasingly inaccurately call “AI” can almost certainly be remapped to something actually useful. That’s why I like Logitech hardware. I don’t really blame them for hopping on the LLM bandwagon.
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For a bastion of ‘innovation’ tech is absolutely rammed with insufferable herd animals.
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Looks like an unintended self-own by bing image creator.
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The button, which is an unusual shade of bright cyan so you know it’s special, opens something called the “prompt builder,” whose purpose in the context of mice or mousing-related activities remains obscure.
egads… some of us (antiquated has-beens) really really try to only buy hardware if it doesn’t depend on some proprietary device driver; let alone some full blown ‘app’ running in the background (yeeesh… “Your headphones have detected a pirated music file – the authorities have been alerted”)
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Logitech Options+ has a prompt builder tool, so if you have a compatible logitech device and have that program installed you can use it without buying this special mouse.
However, I have a G502, and a Brio, and I find Logitech software is confusing, resource intensive, and buggy. My Brio wants Logitune, and my mouse wants Ghub.
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… but if it’s absorbed by an LLM and then regenerated when we ask it for “a song” then it’s okay, right 
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Nobody’s mentioned yet that it’s also gluten free.
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Well, the difference is that a gluten allergy is actually a thing… AI is not.
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AI is as overused as Pumpkin Spice. Maybe someone will figure out how to combine those two.
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But is it on the blockchain?
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Can it be reassigned to something useful, like fart noises?
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