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I don't get why fully grown adults act like they didn't have the ability to do literally anything just 3 or 4 years ago before the proliferation of AI...

I think you guys are missing that making as little contact with the systems as possible is not just not going to the damned programs, is avoiding all the places in which it's been forced. Even googling something hits you with AI now.

I swear! A higher up contacted us at IT to complain she had reached her AI usage limit and couldn’t edit her PowerPoint slides. Like… How the heck did you do this before? JUST DO THAT!!! The slides were full of spelling and layout mistakes, by the way…

It's so not-hard that even when my employer forced us to 'upgrade' our laptops to Windows 11 devices, complete with integrated Copilot buttons and shit, I continued to not use Copilot or any other AI shite. It is really, *really* not hard.

Wanna destroy the button? There’s a program called Windows Powertoys, download that and it comes with a bunch of features (turn off most, tbh), but the most important one is Keyboard Remapper. You can make the copilot key literally anything else or just disable it entirely. And it works everywhere.

yeah imagine actually reading a news article all the way through without having it pre-digested, or creating a piece of art, or writing and recording a song, or just having an opinion and expressing it yourself. It's as if some people don't want to acknowledge what life was like even 5 years ago

The only time I use it is at work, because my work literally forces me to, and even then I use it as little as possible. Nearly threw up when they excitedly announced "we all have Copilot now!" Like that was something to be thankful for.

"they've got to be the most disciplined oriental monk the world's ever seen" and it's just a random dude with a beanie and an actual education

I only ever used it by accident because of the way it pops up in your face everywhere, overlapping the text box you were about to type in! Trying to turn it off and avoiding it is a full time job! So annoying!