Google has added

ANOTHER

fucking icon you have to turn off to disable their AI shit, which lives in its own service, so none of the (3? more?) AI disabler toggles covers it, but it doesn't work without Smart Features so lol

"With Google Workspace Studio, you can automate routine tasks across Google Workspace services like Gmail, Sheets, and Drive, as well as other common business apps using Gemini"

Ah, they've reached the Using AI In Stuff It Didn't Need To Be In To Try And Create A Wedge To Force Enabling stage of AI

Oh wait

Lol

Disabling the service doesn't hide the icon, naturally

EDIT: Let's see what their Support agents say about this, maybe there's yet another secret disabling switch they have to enable

Ok so there's also this new switch you need to disable (which may or may not work, but it can take up to 24 hours to propagate blah blah we shall see)
anyways now I'm gonna do my breathing exercises and go back to working on my game which is hmmm oh dear a bit violent hmmm wonder what general cultural shift could be being expressed through my art hmm https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/
Verminsteel on Steam

You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun. Joined by a hoe-wielding badger, a mouse with a frying pan, and all the Molotovs you can chuck: You’ll resist occupation, defend the helpless, and push the Verminsteel back under the rock they crawled from.

I'd really like to know what the fuck their business model looks like at this point though that "trick a/o force users to use this product that they have clearly signaled they don't want, that costs US money every time they use it" is their go-to plan? Still? Like

The money burn ain't working y'all

@glassbottommeg with as persistent as they're being with it and all the other stuff about it the only thing that adds up to me is they're banking on it being addictive with even short exposures.