top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 192 points 8 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Oh no you should not say slop it hurts feelings.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 132 points 8 months ago (26 children)

    People are using AI a lot, or people were already using programs with recently added AI features a lot?

  • source
  • hideshow 26 child comments
  • [–] 142 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Day 1: We have 1 million Excel users.

    Day 2: we added Copilot to Excel, we have 1 million new CoPilot users!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    One of my bosses was screen sharing with me this week and had co-pilot up in Excel. I don't know what he was doing with it. he started fucking around with it while he was screen sharing, just doing something unrelated to what we were talking about. I know he was just trying to bait me into asking what was going on.

    fuck that, I don't care, I know you love your AI, I don't give a shit, it's not useful for what I do and I don't want to talk about how it can almost do something kind of right

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    I love/hate that this is a common experience. Someone did this to me too, although this was sort of a work friend taking the piss.

    I have straight up backhandedly implied people senior to me who get paid 5x more than I do are throwing any possible expertise they might have out of the window. To their face. My stance on these slop extruders is well known among my colleagues.

    I’ve even told people who used them in front of me, in a gentle but unflinching way, that their willingness to use them uncritically is a red flag for me and that comparing my genuine work to general machine output is something I can’t simply decide not to take as an insult. Including people who are supposed to review my work. As a professional I have to do something that exceeds the first page of Google in specificity. I do the long yards. Why is that suddenly a problem? If our work was this simple why are we getting paid to do it?

    Some of these people trust me enough that they’re getting queasy about the whole AI thing after initially giving in. Yeah it’s decent at summarizing mass emails from corporate. Summarizing mass emails from corporate is not our fucking job. At least two people were paid subscribers to OpenAI’s product and no longer pay for chatbots. Proselytizing against the death of critical thinking is not a lost cause.

    I have to get the fuck out of corporate.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Isn't Copilot integrated with the Windows taskbar search?

    I think the sole reason Copilot is used at all is because they've forced it in applications it has no place in, and requires it remain on by default.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I have never liked having a search box in the taskbar. My taskbar is for pinned programs, open programs, volume, Ethernet/wifi, and a clock. Nothing more.

    You can remove copilot from windows 11 completely now...with an outside program.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
  • load more comments (3 replies)
  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    That'd be my guess.

    I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.

    I really should stop using Google. But can't use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
  • [–] 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I have it on my work laptop, because unfortunately my company bought into the hype. Every once in a while I ask it how to do a thing, just to see if it will help. So far copilot has been wrong 100% of the time.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago

    I have to give it this much respect: When I logged in to office.com (for work) recently and was confronted with the Copilot chat-box, I asked it how to disable Copilot. It was honest, and told me that it's not possible because this is Microsoft's new product strategy. Then, I asked how I could never see Copilot again.

    It (no joke!) told me to install Linux.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And are these people using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot in the room with us now, Satya?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 31 points 8 months ago

    Yea, sure. They're unwilling "active users" because they accidentally click on some copilot garbage that's been shoved into every inch of Windows. While I see plenty of folks using various AI tools, none of those tools are copilot.

  • source
  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago

    OS takes a screenshot every five seconds. CEO: "Damn, look how much it is being used!" /s

  • source
  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    "A lot" is a great, quantifiable metric there, computer man! 👍👍👍📈💯🍾

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, by accident.

  • source
  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago*

    Yeah, MS Teams (not my choice) had a pop-up that said that in order for a meeting to be recorded, I needed to accept that my video and what I say will be used by Microsoft for various purposes including training copilot.

    So, that counts as me using copilot, right? /s

    edit: A word

  • source
  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well yeah, you rename a core product to Copilot and suddenly you have tons of users

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Didn't they add copilot to notepad, to the file Explorer, to windows I assume as a non removable service (internet explorer anyone?), and to who knows how many more places?

    Whatever metrics they claim to have are for sure not inflated. /s

    If people are indeed using copilot a lot then great: good for you, please shut up, you don't need me on-board.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 17 points 8 months ago
    [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Man this guy looks like a husk of curses.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    Whether they like it or not.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Copilot is such trash. Used it with my daughters project on Amerigo Vespucci. Copilot linked me to Christopher Columbus' journeys. Gemini linked me to the actual information and even in Geminis own search results, the Microsoft one was wrong.

    I hated using AI but come on. If you are going to destroy the planet micro slop, at least do it well.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    I just rebuilt my Win 11 Pro Workstation setup (yes, it is the version for stupidly high core and thread counts), and one of the first things I did was to violently eviscerate anything AI in the system. Right after gleefully ripping out all the telemetry and spyware.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

    Ohh, that would be all the developers at jobs with daily AI use quotas running scheduled scripts to make it look like they are using AI so they don't lose their jobs.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    I mean if it auto generates the summary and all by just opening a word documents then yeah it's being "used" but human in the chair is just ignoring that as another bloat

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    No, they're not. 90% of the "use" is them forcing it on us.

    I just tried using my voice to call my son on the phone, and Co-Pilot answered, explained what it could do for me, and finally made the call. It took at least 5 times longer than usual to just dial a number. I didn't ask for Co-Pilot, I barely can stand the old way, this new one really, really sucks, and again, I didn't ask for this, it forced itself on my life.

    Fuck this AI shit, complicating everything just so some CEOs can rationalize their stupid bonuses.

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Yeah cause when I instinctively click the Microsoft learn link below the Azure error it takes me to copilot instead of documentation.

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Since they renamed Microsoft Office to Copilot, they have millions of Copilot users. It’s almost as popular as Google+ when Google made all Gmail users Google+ users.

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    I edited my registry to disable it.

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    No, we just can't delete it.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Because they keep cramming it in all my apps at work and every time I load my email, it tries to open Copilot?

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago*

    I just uninstalled my outlook because of forced copilot garbage and forcing me to the cloud when I just wanted to open a pdf. I was enraged and now I am done with all microslop garbage. I used to have an annual subscription too.

    Already on Linux, was just too lazy to switch everything but this was enough.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Probably GitHub Copilot.

    The rest just sucks.

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›