Post #3676873

2026-07-08 17:23 UTC

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@taoish/116884161402249680 One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage??) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. I'm going to make a handout that explains how to do some of the basic AI-removal or AI-avoidance things. Would appreciate links which give simple steps to do this for the most-used (Siri, Alexa, Gemini, Copilot, Firefox's AI nonsense &c.) so I can collate and synthesize. Thanks!

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@VATVSLPR@c.im 2026-07-08 21:28

@jessamyn@glammr.us I'm actually more worried about the humans around me pushing me to use AI than I am about the intrusive pushes to use AI in a lot of software. It's way easier to click "No" on a box in the software, even if I have to do it every time, than to resist my boss saying "just run it through AI to polish up the writing" all the time. I like to think I can write better than the AI can, and I'd rather not have my carefully chosen wording degraded into generic AI speak.

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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange 2026-07-09 00:14

@jessamyn@glammr.us they use ai all the time they just don't know it yet #ai flattening

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@glecharles@gardenstate.social 2026-07-08 17:31

@jessamyn@glammr.us I liked LFP's AI flyers at the Radical Book Buzz. Looks like they're all available here under AI critical resources: https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/

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@jessamyn@glammr.us 2026-07-13 17:53

I have consolidated many of these suggestions into a document with a few other links. Anything major that I am missing? This is mostly for the types of users I interact with (mainly older adults) so I did not include things like Slack and I'm not sure about things I don't use much like Outlook or Facebook. Other suggestions for links about removing AI geared towards not-very-technical people? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYLmQLYZy_Mg-Dh6iME6R61Jjh4L6sRrw1v2dLXs9aE/edit?usp=sharing

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@ravenonthill@mastodon.social 2026-07-09 10:14

@jessamyn@glammr.us one suggestion is not to use Chrome, which is just loaded with "AI" sea lions. But the thing is just everywhere; I don't think that's a realistic suggestion unfortunately.

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@zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org 2026-07-14 18:11

@jessamyn@glammr.us I love AI. I want an AI girlfriend to gimme a hard on etc I want it all! I want it to cook for me and it gives me cheapest nearest junk food to put in microwave for under 3$

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