Oh no you should not say slop it hurts feelings.
Clanker-wankers don’t have feelings
Hurt shareholders, you mean?
Feelings.
Shareholders have feelings?
People are using AI a lot, or people were already using programs with recently added AI features a lot?
Day 1: We have 1 million Excel users.
Day 2: we added Copilot to Excel, we have 1 million new CoPilot users!
I see you know corporate math well
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
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.
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.
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.
I love having a search box on my taskbar. I want it to search my PC for installed apps and files and nothing else. I certainly don’t want to do a fucking Bing search for “Settings”
It seems like a waste of space on the taskbar, to me
In the Start Menu/Finder/KRunner/wofi I want it to search, but I don’t need the text input box visible at all times taking space
yeah, I actually like it now, but that’s mostly because they made the start menu so fucked up and full of shit
I’ve adjusted to just hitting start and typing the first few characters of what I want to open and slapping enter. I’m okay with that process, I actually kind of like it. I don’t need to look at what’s going on and I don’t need to move my hand over to the mouse. The only problem, and this is kind of a big thing, is that yeah it doesn’t search just my fucking installed programs, and sometimes it just opens another program that doesn’t even match what I typed. so the 60% success rate at best is kind of a big failure
Its so slow as well. It regularly takes a few seconds to appear when I try and use it
It’s in fucking notepad
The original Copilot is GitHub Copilot which is a coding assistant and it’s very popular and useful for developers. I think most of the paying copilot customers and usage are coming from there.
Kind of like internet explorer bundled with Office back in the day….
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.
If it helps, you can use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ to stop the auto-AI inserts.
Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can’t be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it’s the principle of the thing.
So you can’t be arsed to live up to your own principles?
I can’t be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn’t choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That’s all.
On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency/because change is hard, but I set the default behavior in Firefox to exclude AI results.
I’d just prefer to use/support a search engine that abstains from AI entirely, regardless of whether or not you can turn it off. I don’t want to be a happy customer of companies that still try to weasel that stuff in, because they won’t stop at a toggle. They never do.
you can turn off ai and block ai content in ddg settings.Kagi AI is opt-in. As in, you don’t go out of your way to use it, you won’t.
DDG uses its own basket of search indexes, Bing is now under 10% or so of total index usage in the big 26. Also yeah, noai ddg is awesome.
Kagi has AI features, but I’ve only ever seen them in the settings. They have never once pushed me to use them. Which is good, as that would be pretty much a dealbreaker.
They renamed “Office 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot”.
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.
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.
It’s disabled on my company laptop. Even though the laptop has a Copilot button, replacing CTRL button.
Yeah, I fucking hate that. At least the Windows/Magic/Menu button has a conceptual equivalent in every major OS, so it does something Start Menu adjacent, but the Copilot button is a really arrogant overstep, like when you get a TV with a Netflix button on the remote.
And are these people using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot in the room with us now, Satya?
No, you wouldn’t know them - they go to a different high school. In Canada.
Are these people that only you can see telling you to burn everything down again, Satya?
Yeah, by accident.
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.
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
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.
Yeah, this smells a lot like Texas Sharpshooting. Figure out what people use, stuff Copilot in there then proudly present the target that you drew after hitting something.
OS takes a screenshot every five seconds. CEO: “Damn, look how much it is being used!” /s
Whether they like it or not.
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
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.
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.
“A lot” is a great, quantifiable metric there, computer man! 👍👍👍📈💯🍾
The article mentions concrete numbers for the different Copilot products.
A Microsoft spokesperson tells TechCrunch that this number has grown to 150 million total.
150 million, what?
Individual users, prompts, prompts per second, accounts, installs, subscriptions bought?
Numbers on their own have no meaning. This is still rubbish trying to cosplay as information. Active copilot users means nothing until explained how the number is calculated.
“Last year, in its annual report, the company said it surpassed 100 million monthly active Copilot users, but that counted both commercial users and consumers. A Microsoft spokesperson tells TechCrunch that this number has grown to 150 million total. Again that includes commercial and consumer users.”
