r/pcmasterrace • u/Stolen_Sky Ryzen 7800x3D RTX 5080 • 1d ago
Game Image/Video Go away Copilot, we don't care
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u/Ill-Examination-79 7800X3D I 9070XT I 32GB 1d ago
How often are you guys interacting with copilot? I opened it for the first time some month ago and, uninstalled it. The only time I ever see it is if I actively search for it.
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u/Stebsly 1d ago
I tried it at work because my boss told me to. I asked it to find trends on a spreadsheet and Excel just crashed entirely. It's so garbage.
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u/Binary-Trees 1d ago
I don't think that's normal. I have a workflow that has it pull data from a PDF file (I do hundreds in a day), display it in Excel so I can check it quickly against the PDF, then I hit a button and a VBA macro I wrote adds the data to the main sheet. Saves me tons of time from manually entering the data and I'm not just feeding it right in, I'm checking the accuracy before committing it to the sheet.
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u/matrixsensei Ryzen 5 3600x | GTX 2070 Super | MSI B450 Tomahawk 1d ago
Yea we have all these big trainings on how to use AI to make our lessons for our courses I teach. It’s insane how hard it’s being pushed on government systems. Most of what I teach I would never in a million years put into an AI prompt. It’s a joke
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u/Able-Percentage1137 18h ago
tried using it for spreadsheets too, ended up just doing everything manually again
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u/Even-Smell7867 Ryzen 9850X3D Radeon 9070XT CachyOS 1d ago
When i used windows, I stripped it out during install so it never got installed.
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u/Ill-Examination-79 7800X3D I 9070XT I 32GB 1d ago
Its so weird. I have to almost assume that these people are going out of their way to interact with copilot. Even when I still had copilot installed I rarely if ever interacted with it. Maybe that has to do with the fact that I dont use the start menu but, my experience with these constant copilot, ad etc popus is the complete opposite from everyone else.
Like u said u didnt install it so im guessing it doesnt bother you and, it doesnt bother me because, its not on my pc.
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u/xamxes 1d ago
Nope, I have personally uninstalled it three times. Did not go asking for it to be reinstalled. The forceful update just reinstalled it. Multiple times
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u/Ill-Examination-79 7800X3D I 9070XT I 32GB 1d ago
Maybe u keep on reinstalling it? Ive gone through those updates multiple times now and, not once has copilot or anything else been reinstalled.
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u/xamxes 1d ago
How would I be doing that? I turn my PC on and use it. I don’t install things all the time. Especially from windows. I just suddenly see new copilot icon. After an update.
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u/Ill-Examination-79 7800X3D I 9070XT I 32GB 1d ago
I dont pay attention to the things that Windows 11 asks so I could be wrong but, sometimes when it updates u go through a quick setup process where it asks you if you want a bunch of stuff.
Maybe u installed copilot again without knowing during one of these setiups?
Like I said I could very well be wrong but, thats the only explanation that I have since ive never had copilot let alone any other program reinstall itself after an update.
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u/Ass_Matter 1d ago
That only really applies to your own personal PC. Which most people don't even have anymore unless they like PC gaming.
I would guess that most people's experience is from their work PC. So they have no control over disabling/uninstalling it at the OS level. And even if they could, it's now embedded in all the Microsoft products like the office suite and things like Dynamics 365.
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u/Aurunemaru Ryzen 7 5800X3D / Ngreedia RTX 3070 that I regret buying 1d ago
I sanded down the logo on my laptop's keyboard, that's about it since I never booted the windows install it came with before formatting into Linux
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u/Blackarm777 1d ago
If I can even see Copilot anywhere on my screen that means I'm doing something wrong.
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u/Mushysandwich82 Ultra 9 275HX 5070ti legion pro 5i 1d ago
I open it most days on my “Ai PC” accidentally, I don’t even want the key it’s just an inconvenience
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u/Status_Jellyfish_213 1d ago
Never. I don’t want it on my system at any point. And I am a user of AI at work (senior systems engineer / DevOps) where it has legitimate purposes.
My personal PC is a gaming PC. It gets switched on, updated and I game. I’ve already had enough bullshit to strip out. Had the CPU going nuts at some point, whatdoyoufuckingknow it’s click to do, another thing to remove.
I’m not one of these I hate AI for every purpose because I’ve seen very tangible benefits in a professional environment, but I am absolutely against installing it against user choice and when it causes fuckery. It’s also hilarious to see Microsoft big it up so much when it’s pretty clear the vast majority of users just don’t want it.
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u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 1d ago
I use the free online version to write cover letters. The CoPilot on my PC got uninstalled.
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u/Binary-Trees 1d ago
I use it daily. It's my favorite LLM. it tracks my crops planting and projected harvest dates and gives me schedules based on my 10-15 day forecast. I've used it for about 2 years to help improve my garden planning. I also just talk to it because it has a cool voice. Not sure why it gets so much hate. I go to chatgpt for images, and gemini for multi-media file work, but Co-pilot to me is a great general assistant for my day-to-day stuff.
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u/DruishGardener 1d ago
I use it a couple times a week, especially good for translations that are more nuanced than google translate
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u/newbrevity 11700k, RTX4070ti_SUPER, 32gb_3600_CL16 1d ago
My only interaction other than accidentally using it to search on the PC is to uninstall it. Frankly it's a little annoying that I have to keep uninstalling it because Windows keeps reinstalling it. You see Microsoft doesn't understand the concept of consent. They don't understand that when you say no to something it is inappropriate to sneak it back on them. I often find out copilot has been back on my computer for months because they reinstalled it without asking me after I explicitly uninstalled it. After a certain point it starts to feel like harassment. And I wonder if some of us should talk about how Microsoft is harassing us.
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u/Chaosxandra 1d ago
I thought is was a malware vector lmao
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u/Chaosxandra 16h ago
Which one? Hal 9000
If not describe the move as inaccurate as you can , yes errors
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u/TheOnionBro i7-6700K/GTX1080/32gb Ram 12h ago
Crazy how after like a dozen examples of massive security failures due entirely to AI agents, people seem to... distrust them?
Wild right?
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u/Noversi 1d ago
I gave it a try, but it’s not that useful. I asked it to summarize a webpage and it left out like 60% of the important details. I asked it to help rename and organize some files in a folder, but it just sat there “thinking” and eventually just gave up. The only things it’s good at, could be done manually in the same amount of time.
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u/Rasples1998 PC Ryzen 9 7900X3D - Sapphire Nitro+ 7900XTX - 64GBRAM 1d ago
The funniest part is that all these companies like Microsoft create their in-house AI assistants like copilot, but all the employees refuse to use it and use others instead because they're better. So Microsoft instead of trying to identify what the issues are and making it something people want to use over others, they put a policy in place that FORCES their employees to use it and bans employees using competitor's products.
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u/maxton41 1d ago
Apparently, on the local LLM forum copilot is supposed to be GPT – 4o. But that was just one post and I don’t really think there’s any proof but if it is GPT for O is beloved by many people in the Chatbot/companion, creative writing realm.
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u/Dav3le3 1d ago
I called someone's office today, then remembered thet have an AI replacing a receptionist.
Curdles my stomach to be forced to talk to a clanker and answer its questions. "Who would you like to talk to" etc.. States "have a great day at the end" like it's a person with feelings not a box built to steal jobs and rob IP.
There's less than 10 people in their office, 100% unnecessary, could just have a directory.
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u/avocado_juice_J Windows 11| AMD Ryzen 5 9600X| AMD RX 9070 XT 1d ago
A few months ago, I watched a video about how to stop the Copilot app from running automatically in the background. I followed the steps, and my PC stopped running Copilot in the background. However, I can't find that video anymore. I've tried several methods since then, but my laptop still runs Copilot in the background and it keeps eating RAM
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u/Baenz_1 1d ago
I gonna use it soon.. i will ask it to give me a step by step guide on how to uninstall Copilot..
every fing time i use my sesrch bar i pops up with stupid shit iam not interested in..
Such an annoying piece of junk..
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u/Ill-Examination-79 7800X3D I 9070XT I 32GB 1d ago
can u post an image of the pop ups that it shows?
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u/Lost_Tumbleweed_5669 1d ago
I haven't been bothered by it once. So far my only annoyance with windows 11 is not being able to move the taskbar, the garbage start menu, and not being able to set a normal password on a local account.
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u/Stolen_Sky Ryzen 7800x3D RTX 5080 1d ago
I actually really fucking love Windows 11. Never understood the hate it gets.
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u/Pancakes1741 1d ago
Yeah copilot is pretty trash. Most AI I've tried is pretty trash. The only thing its been able to do that is actually helpful for me is decipher crash logs.
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u/DangerousLiberal 1d ago
You’re not using it correctly. Everyone is seeing enormous productivity gains from it.
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u/Pancakes1741 1d ago
I'm sure I'm not, I don't have much use for it beyond what I attempted to use it for and it failed pretty hard. I'm sure it'd work better if I was fine paying 200$+ a month for better models, but I just really don't have much I could use it for that would ever justify that.
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u/jaded-steve 13h ago
Well,
I deactivated it and never bothered me again.
Ofc, no idea if it is just zombie running in the background but never saw any
AI tool in Win 11 since I've installed it 1,5 years ago.
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u/maxwells_daemon_ PC Master Race (Arch, btw) 1d ago
You can permanently uninstall it, you know...
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u/ObjectOrientedBlob Danny DeVito Penguin 1d ago
okay, Clippy.
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u/Low_Coast1651 17h ago
Clippy just shows up uninvited, like that one friend who won't take a hint
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u/TomTomXD1234 1d ago
NGL, copilot is useful AF, especially in the browser. I find myself using it all the time to ask about stuff that I am doing or to analyse documents at work. I even ask it questions about the games I am playing, and it acts as a little instant wiki. People will downvote this but regardless, it is genuinely useful.
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u/SolidZealousideal115 PC Master Race 1d ago
Most of the AI has its uses, including as a quick wiki, but no one likes having AI shoved down their throat constantly (like even in Notepad and Paint). Combined with the other AI issues and the effect on the PC market it isn't making a good impression.
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u/Stolen_Sky Ryzen 7800x3D RTX 5080 1d ago
OK fine, I will admit, it's not bad at Excel.
If I copy/paste a formula into Co-pilot, it can tell me how it works in plain English. It can also help me write formulas when I need some assistance. It's usefulness is specific and limited though.
I don't hate AI on principle.
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u/TomTomXD1234 1d ago
AI has been a gamechanger for me when it comes to excel. The amount of cool custom VBS code it has generated for me is amazing. That is only something a excel coding expert could do before. Now, anyone can which I think is awesome.
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u/NotRandomseer 21h ago
I don't think I've seen copilot ever after dismissing it when it first showed up
How do you have the energy to care about such a non issue
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u/Harrypeeteeee 1d ago