And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have a colleague who is basically illiterate (English as first language, too!) and she recently started using Gemini to E-mail people and it’s so embarrassing. People think they’re just talking to an LLM chatbot, which I suppose they might as well be.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If a coworker doesn't bother to write the email, I'm not going to bother reading it lol.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ugh these E-mails go out to clients, but our E-mail’s are tracked in our database so if one of us is out, the rest of us can help a client in need. Reading her outgoing E-mails is painful.

    The other day, she called someone by their dead wife’s name, and didn’t even answer their question. She also survived the latest round of layoffs, much the the chagrin of the rest of us on the team.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    My job just sent out an email saying to use the “corporate version” of chatGPT for work. I was stunned that feeding our incredibly sensitive documents to an LLM wasn’t a fireable offense.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Adobe Acrobat is doing something similar. I need to read documents in full, line by line, I don't need a summary, but I always have to close a bar that takes up screen space.

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    someone requested some LLM to access our github repos (all 900 of them) recently.

    the company I work for is a very AI positive. I however, am not.

    instead of outright rejecting the request I have ignored it.

    in 3-6 months I'll reject it, until then I'll just keep ignoring it and making up excuses when it comes up.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Can you provide more context? What's that and what are the consequences for you disabling it?

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Google Workspace (what the company I work for uses for collaboration).

    1. I don't want Gemini/AI. At all.
    2. If you disable it, it still pops up constantly.
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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If your Google workspace is managed by an administrator, you may not have the rights to disable it. Even if you disable it in your account, if the group policy has it turned on it'll still operate.

    If you're allowed to use Firefox and ublock origin, you can block it at the page level. Scripts can't run if they don't load.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It is managed, but I can disable smart features and remove it as an app. But it still pops up constantly (basically like an ad). If you try to do anything from the pop-up, it tells you it needs to be enabled to work. So, it knows it's disabled but still shoves itself in my face as if I accidentally clicked into 4 different deep settings pages to disable it lol.

    I can and do use FF, but I use Chrome for Workspace because .... stupid company policy reasons. It works in FF, but the way they have SSO configured, you get logged out every 45 minutes.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    Bloatware and the consequences are he could lose his job. A lot of companies that got scammed now have to use AI or realize they invested in nothing and a company forced to realize they lost revenue in this day and age because of shitty investments?

    Edit: Thats why theyre forcing it on employees. If you cant use their investment then they actually did lose a shit ton of money and did get scammed.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's like Gemini is Clippy if he transcended is original form.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I am unfortunately forced to use the azure portal for work so I use ublock origin to pick and block all AI buttons I see. Much cleaner now

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Every single fucking Google meet. God fucking forbid I hover anywhere near that dreaded icon, the popup gets in the way of everything and does its best not to close. And if one invitee isn’t present, the constant nag of “want me to transcribe for this person?” Is incessant. I hate it so goddamn much and it’s relentless.

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