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Evening from Spoons. I may be an AI luddite. I am utterly sick of having it rammed down my throat. A few examples:

1) Accounting platforms where it gives you suggestions for what the transaction may be which are almost always wrong. Takes longer to delete what Quickbooks / Sage / Revolut / Tide have autocompleted than to just do it directly
2) YouTube Studio. I am offered "comment reply suggestions" to most comments left on my channel. Can't switch this feature off, uses screen space, especially on mobile
3) Have just completed a trial of Monday.com for my business. Spent c. 8 hours on it, plus a few more doing planning etc. Trial about to expire so lets set our subscription. Not only do they force you to pay for users you don't have, you must buy AI tokens for those people you don't have. And in 2 weeks the number of AI tokens we have used on trial is zero. A cost increase of 50%. And of course you can't opt out. Other than binning the entire platform which we have now done
4) Microsoft won't let you remove Copilot. Endless intrusion on apps like Powerpoint, even down to the minor irritation of having to dock the logo thing so its not on the slides I am working on. WhatsApp won't even let you do that - the Meta AI symbol takes up screen space and you can't remove it

I'm being driven mad by AI. Please make it go away.

It's almost like they've forgotten all the lessons they (should have) learnt from the infuriating paperclip 20 odd years ago.

Microsoft absolutely learned the lesson of Clippy. Unfortunately, the lesson they seem to have learned is to not give the mugs any choice in the matter this time.

At one point, if you told Clippy to fuck off, it came back with "would you like to turn me off?". And then they disabled that feature

There used to be a plugin for `vim` called `vigor`. It would just pop up and say things like "It looks like you're trying to type [Cancel]", "You pressed cursor-left [Undo]".