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   Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 06:09:43 JST Doug Belshaw

   This Bluesky thread is wild. I use LLMs as part of my workflow, but I really *didn't* like having Gemini forced into my Google Docs, email, and everywhere else this week.

   One person, who has written into their contracts that they're not allowed to use AI in their work tried to get it turned off...

   https://bsky.app/profile/litbowl.bsky.social/post/3lfvlw656xs24

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 06:09:42 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @dajb Atlassian has been doing this to me for almost a year now. :( https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-Do-I-Disable-Ask-AI/qaq-p/2659115

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     Steve Herrick (steve@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:03:56 JST Steve Herrick

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @dajb It calls to mind @pluralistic's debunking of the phrase, "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Here we are, paying for the product, and yet, we are the product at the same time.

     Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:04:01 JST Doug Belshaw

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     • Steve Herrick

     @Steve It's an incredible to do to paying business users

     Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Steve Herrick (steve@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 07:04:04 JST Steve Herrick

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     @dajb I found that intensely annoying, especially since I had six different Gmail accounts open at the same time, which is a lot, even for me.

     I can't change my workflow at work, but at home, my workflow is Obsidian-> pandoc.

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     Gary "grim" Kramlich (grimmy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 08:45:59 JST Gary "grim" Kramlich

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Steve Herrick

     @Steve @dajb @pluralistic Whether you're paying for the product or not, you're probably still part of the product.