i have disabled every possible “artificial intelligence” setting in my account

every team or org i work with has disabled every “artificial intelligence” setting in their accounts

and yet,

tech ceos in the 1990s: computers can be bicycles for the mind

tech ceos in the 2020s: imagine a multiverse, but filled with Clippy

threatening energy
@beep Oh, we’re all paying for it, I’m afraid. 🥴
@jgarber love 2 live in late capitalism
@beep live laugh late-stage capitalism, as they say
@beep "The copilot lays on its back, its revenue withering in the hot sun, beating its users trying to turn itself a profit, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Leon?"
@beep we all paid for clippy, and look where that got us
@beep the whole of modern tech is Clippy, but the “it looks like you’re writing a letter, would you like some help” popup only has buttons “yes” and “maybe later”
@sil Not Gen AI enough. "Yes" and "Maybe yes" @beep
@sil @beep When they talked of the paperclip maximiser, this was not what I expected.
@beep I have been using AI at work. It can be useful if used as a tool with sufficient context of what you are trying to achieve. Better than Clippy? Yep.
@beep AirTable started popping up an “how can I help” overlay every time I access a base, even after I disabled it. Bye-bye AirTable.
@beep "would anyone like any toast?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC

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@patrick_h_lauke PATRICK

YES

@beep copilot just thought you might have changed your mind in the meantime...
@beep this makes me so furious, I ended up collecting a list of custom filters for ublock origin to expunge this infestant crap and not have to see it every day, but I am tired, I want revenge, I wanna see the end of michealsoft and openai and the rest of these companies
@beep I loathe upgrading my streaming/media box to Win 11 and having to troll through all of the guides to disable all the AI spyware and crapware.
@beep i've had success using the element picker in ublock origin to vacuum up all that crap
@beep nevertheless, she persisted
@beep i have just started finding their end to end test anchor points, writing gratuitously specific css selectors, and blocking them with my ad blocker. It's better than dealing with the powerlessness, even for a minute
@beep this might be the first cat i have negative feelings towards

@exchgr god

YEAH

@beep whenever i click a context menu and see his face, i’m like “there he is!!! that’s the scoundrel!!!”
@exchgr i finally switched over to nova from vscode after the tenth straight update that included some “ai” nonsense, i’ve been reveling in the bot-free quiet
@beep [shouting over my computer’s fans] nova looks so good, but unfortunately i’m married to intellij’s indexer