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- world@lemmy.world
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As someone who is constantly fighting tooth and nail against AI being shoved into all of my software, wouldn’t mind knowing how the EU is doing it. What alternatives are being used or how they’re turning it off.
What software are you using that forces AI?
Windows and all Google apps keep doing it. Been slowly trying to wean off Google and on to Protonmail, but I should probably speed up the timeline. I have to jump through a lot of hoops to keep Windows from backing up all my data externally on Onedrive. Then, I have copilot turned off, but they put it in Notepad without telling me and I was using it for months :c I was able to find an alternative, but I feel like AI keeps getting secretly shoved onto the background of Google, outlook, every social media site, any browser that’s not Brave or Vivaldi. Been trying to use other search engines than Google when I can, but sometimes Google is just the best at finding helpful results. I haven’t been able to use a navigation app in a while, and that’s caused some headache. And of course I need to find a Discord alternative, though I’m sure that’s not something the EU could offer any advice on.
I think what I would like most is some sort of comprehensive “black list” that lists compromised software and some alternatives, as well as a sort of alert letting me know if someone (like Google) puts out an update that quietly turned AI on again in the background. At some point I should probably switch to Linux, but in the mean time I wouldn’t mind knowing what policies the EU puts in place for its employees to ensure privacy while using Windows products.
Notion, Adobe, Gmail, etc. every commercial service seems to push AI features more and more.
Gmail is simple (albeit not necessarily easy) to replace, it’s just an email service and there are tonnes out there. I’ve heard great things about Tuta, but I use Proton. With hindsight I would’ve chosen Tuta. Proton has put money into developing some BS cryptowallet and has LLM features I don’t care for.
Adobe is a bit trickier, I admit, at least if you need it in a professional capacity. Some would suggest Affinity, but I won’t. They were bought up by Canva, there’s a bunch of AI bullshit there now, and while it’s free, you should expect enshittification. I’m not putting time and effort into learning a tool that’s going to be yoinked away.
Adobe is also trickier in the sense that they have a fuckton of products. If you don’t need any of their products in a professional capacity there’s always that alternative.
For Notion there’s also a lot of alternatives. Logseq, Appflowy, Affine, Obsidian.
I think the important thing to remember is that when changing a tool you’ll also often need to change your workflow. Some tools have similar workflows, others work completely differently, and some might give you tools you didn’t know you needed. It’s always going to involve a bunch of work though.
I’m personally in the process of trying to get away from Adobe’s Substance Painter. I was never particularly fond of the application, it’s honestly quite shit, but it’s also decently unique in what it does. Yeah there are tools similar to it but none that match fully.
I agree with Affinity. It’s going to enshittify for sure. But at least it’s free, unlike Adobe.
And I bet people will “crack” the last current version the day it enshittifies completely.
Why wasn’t it already banned? Shouldn’t new software have to be approved, not banned?
Idk about others, or if this counts, but I know for a fact that social security in Finland or use AI to transcribe discussions.
I’ve tried how well they transcribe and would never ever ever let them transcribe something as important as social security meetings etc.
Mais … le chat! 😺
