if it works like the rest of their Copilot junk on Teams, all you can expect is more interruptions in your meetings

It's not an answer if i haven't asked, it's interrupting.

…yet. And the some update gets pushed and woopsie doodle! Opt out now!

The moment they turn it on by default I'm starting a meeting and playing movies into my mic all day every day until they go under.

Strangely this is not triggering my usually sensitive privacy concerns. I think since it's a work thing and I feel so dejected about teams already anyway. It just feels like a side of poop with my poop I guess.

Spent the day setting up a Windows 11 test device, including Chrome, WSL, and Docker Desktop. Every step of the way involved opt-outs, for privacy, tracking, and larded, unnecessary AI. The defaults were all set to benefit the vendors instead of the user.

It wasn't just Microsoft. Everyone else wanted their pound of flesh.

So damn exhausting.

Maybe it can spew corpo bullshit? Finally a usage for AI llms!!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/clippy

Clippit, better known as Clippy, is the default animated character in the English Windows version of Microsoft Office Assistant, an interactive user's guide that came pre-installed with Microsoft Office bundles from 1997-2003. Due to its impractical and intrusive nature, Clippy quickly became a subject of mockery among Office users, inspiring a series of satirical images and parodies addressing its overall incompetence.

I guess we'll see if Round 2 goes better than Round 1.

...It won"t be turned on by default, yet.

It sounds like it's going to be an eager intern answering questions that needs thought behind it before answering.

It was bad enough having people demand answers immediately after they stopped talking on Teams.

Teams is the worst. Microsoft keeps finding new lows.

Not excited for this to be used to squash union efforts (legally or not)

This is another good time to remind you all about O&O ShutUp. which will help you turn off all of Windows' invasive features and delete Copilot if you're stuck using Windows.

Yet

Why can't these things just be offered as plugins so I can choose to just ignore them altogether!

The anthropomorphization in this article is nauseating:

If Teams AI feels the meeting needs certain information and there’s a gap in the conversation, it’ll jump in through the meeting chat.

Yeah, no. Nice try. But it's not human. It's not even an animated teddy bear. There is no friendly presence there waiting to help. It doesn't feel jack shit. It doesn't jump. It's not there for you, or your meeting, or your boss, or your company.

It simply performs a constant ongoing analysis and issues a prediction of the next words based on the preceding words.

That, and it lets MS and its partners monetize every goddamn thing it can snatch from you, your meeting, your machine, and everything else it can digitally force access to.

And here I am and just want Teams to display the fact I was in a meeting (scheduled or not) the same as calls I take through Teams. Would help far better than whatever AI bloat they're trying to ram down my throat this time.

Work Product and Attorney Client privilege are broken by AI use, making anything shared with an AI discoverable.

Defaulting AI on is how you get the corporate lawyers to make us drop Microsoft.