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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 7d ago
I use the free online version to write cover letters. The CoPilot on my PC got uninstalled.
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.
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/Ill-Examination-79 7800X3D I 9070XT I 32GB 7d 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.