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  <title>Meme-Free Zone</title>
  <subtitle>And other lies by Marcus L. Rowland</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>ffutures</name>
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  <updated>2024-04-03T19:27:41Z</updated>
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    <title>Getting Rid of Copilot</title>
    <published>2024-04-03T19:27:41Z</published>
    <updated>2024-04-03T19:27:41Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">My Windows box has installed Copilot, an AI &amp;quot;writing&amp;quot; program, in the last round of &amp;quot;upgrades&amp;quot;. This is apparently something that Microsoft are pushing hard, since all instructions on removing it seem to be virtually incomprehensible - about the best that you can do easily is remove the button to start it from the toolbar. I suspect that the instructions were AI generated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not want to use AI for writing - I regard it as an invitation for problems with copyright etc. in the things that I write. I suspect that there are businesses that will find this out the hard way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone knows a method of removing it that doesn't involve more or less incomprehensible instructions please point me at it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, FU Microsoft&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ffutures&amp;ditemid=2340131" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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