Goddamn enshittification.
I wonder what we’ll think when we look back at this era…five years, three years, or even a single year from now.
It will either be normal, they will look at us like we look at office workers from 20 years ago. Or they will cheer the fight we fought against LLM.
I downloaded libre office & never looked back
I’m stuck with it at work and already the bullshit like AI summary etc is driving me nuts
Just wish I could print in Landscape from it. Apparently that’s just plain not possible.
I did that last week, I’m pretty sure I put the resulting sign on my door
you can turn off Copilot completely by following the instructions on this page.
Here is a direct link for the instructions, it’s easy: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Disabling copilot seems to be a weekly action I have to take on my work computer. I wish Libre Office was a viable option…
is it not viable? it’s my only word processor for school
Previous poster is probably talking about a company-owned computer. I’d be fired in a hurry if I installed anything on one of the computers at the hospital I work at… MS office is the only option for me at work.
You mean copilot 365?
The latest spell checks are already trash. The older versions did better. Now, it wrongly corrects grammar, happily inserts the wrong your or their, and assumes wrong words based on context instead of just correcting the spelling.
my phone is so bad at this now. I thought for the longest time it was just my fat fingers on a touchscreen, but after a while I started seeing it “correct” things live. just absolutely dumb shit, like you said - completely the wrong grammar or word for the context
I got to witness first-hand exactly how much worse it’s gotten in the last few years all at once.
See, I’m stuck on an iPhone for the moment (thankfully a 14 which isn’t compatible with the extra AI bullshit, or I’d probably have just dealt with the vulnerability…), and because of liquid glass and a bunch of other reasons, I declined to update my OS from 17.whatever. Then the critical vulnerability was found, and the only fix was to update. So I snapped forward to 26 or whatever it is up to now. Literal years of backslide in one day. It’s so fucking unusable. I can’t wait until that motorola that’s compatible with graphene is available.
I went from having a sort of OK autocorrect that was only wrong like 30% of the time, to just flat out disabling it because it was so so much worse than my own typos and fixing my own mistakes. I gave it a few days, but yeah, it would correct words that I’d typed out correctly to random bullshit, sometimes several words later so you don’t notice it. It wouldn’t fix obvious typos even when they came up in red underline. It got the wrong conjugation or contraction frequently. It was aggressive about changing stuff no matter how many times I typed it in the correct way.
It’s fucking bad, man. You are not imagining it. At all. It’s just that it crept up on you as it gradually got worse.
I removed Copilot and Edge from my Windows machine. Don’t worry, my main system is Linux.
Reason #43,509 to avoid Microsoft stuff.
kind of surprised companies don’t push back on this more
the amount of time my company loses because I have to figure out how to turn off AI shit that fucks with my work is non-zero, paid at overtime rate, and has real consequences on project timelines. I can’t be the only one
it’s like auto-save being on by default. that almost cost the company tens of thousands of dollars because somebody opened a customer document, made a change and saved it, and the rest of us assumed that’s how it came from the customer. it was only caught because I noticed the version history and got curious
I refuse to review anything by AI if forced to used it… if it’s forced, and it makes changes… and it fucks up, that’s their problem. not mine.
Yep. My workplace just rolled out two janky AI compliance agents. They are wrong about half the time, and they give different results for the same content every time you run it through. You could spend a whole day just changing things back and forth per the agent, and I have.
Basic spellcheck, love it. Anything else introduces unwanted fuckery into the verbiage.
basic spell check requires zero AI, tho
It’s like they’re trying to drive away all their users
That approach hasn’t exactly been universally loved. Critics – including folks over at Mozilla As if Mozilla is not trying to follow their footsteps integrating AI… 😒
