I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.
@annaleen
How is it that so many non-tech people have Adobe Reader/Acrobat on their computers?
And I don't mean "why aren't they using Okular:" I know that most people aren't aware noncommercial software exists, let alone how to find the best.
What I mean is why aren't most Windows users using Edge? I thought modern Windows recommends Edge as the default PDF reader? A majority of Windows users also have Chrome installed. Edge and Chrome's PDF readers are far from perfect, but they were leagues better than Adobe even before the whole AI summary nonsense.
So how is it that so many non-tech folks seem to have ignored the perfectly functional PDF reader that is the default on their system and installed a much worse one?
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