Microsoft bundles AI into Office for consumers.
Hopefully lots of people cancel which makes other companies wary of trying similar.
Submitted 5 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Microsoft bundles AI into Office for consumers.
Hopefully lots of people cancel which makes other companies wary of trying similar.
So will business customers be able to disable the AI “features”?
Double whammy
OpenOffice, folks.
*libreoffice
Just not MS.
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
didn’t google just do the same thing?
not enough people springing for the ai-addon by itself, so they just force it on everyone instead, at a ‘lower-but-still-higher’ price.
ownsauce@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I cancelled my Kagi subscription for a similar reason, didn’t wanna fund their AI tool development.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Yo my knowledge they just use existing models. But yes, I think it’s a good idea to request they specifically don’t add to the steaming pile of slop
lilja@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Have you found a viable alternative? I like how Kagi takes my money instead of showing me ads and lets me filter out domains.