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yesterday comment added Ash Zade Staff @user400654 I talk about who this scope is meant for and why it's not meant to compete with other AI tools meta.stackexchange.com/a/415121/1258352.
yesterday comment added Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI @ashzade You've been getting feedback about this overhyped Clippy you're insisting on forcing down everyone's throat, and the overwhelming response from pretty much everyone who cared enough to respond was "No thank you, we hate this, this is a bad idea, don't do it" and all you staffers ever came back with was "Well, we're gonna do it anyway".
2 days ago comment added user400654 They could… just as they could have continued asking questions here after ChatGPT was released, just as people “could” ignore getting downvoted and come back and continue to participate after their first bad experience on SO, there’s a lot of things people “could” do, but why would people who want a solution like ai assist come to so for it when every mainstream widely available solution is already trained on so and has none of these guardrails? SO gave up the goods on this being a useful solution ages ago. Now it’s just a low quality copy pasta.
2 days ago comment added Ash Zade Staff @user1937198 if it's a genuine question, the answer is "obviously not". Everyone can continue to use Stack without being impacted by AI Assist like many features on the site.
2 days ago comment added user1937198 @AshZade no one is being forced to use the site, and right now the easiest way to get rid of the ai assist is to not engage with the site. Is that the story you want?
2 days ago comment added MrUpsidown But they HAD TO do like every other site...
Dec 3 at 21:16 comment added canon @AshZade "This is the start, not the end of AI Assist." Alas...
Dec 3 at 19:05 comment added Resistance Is Futile "How do I turn this off" is not written with large enough font. This is crucial question. I don't want to have anything to do with AI Assist and I don't want to be reminded of its existence, and I want to receive spam notifications about it in my inbox even less.
Dec 3 at 18:24 comment added Tim Lewis @AshZade Given the feedback already received on this Meta post, you know full well what dmh means when they say "opt-in vs opt-out"... Also, I just got a message in my Stackoverflow inbox that when clicked, takes me to the AI Assist chat page. I did not opt-in to that, but here we are.
Dec 3 at 17:55 comment added user400654 … you know what they meant… why be purposely antagonizing towards people providing feedback
Dec 3 at 17:49 comment added Ash Zade Staff @dmh I'm not sure I understand, no one is being forced to use it so isn't opting out just not using it?
Dec 3 at 17:39 comment added dmh @AshZade, did the team consider making this opt-in instead of opt-out?
Dec 3 at 9:14 comment added Lundin @TimLewis Speaking of irony... Announcement 1: " AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow" Announcement 2: "Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned". Browsing the site is like using some sort of Kafkaesque mental illness simulator...
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Dec 2 at 16:25 comment added Tim Lewis For fun, I asked "How do I disable this?", to which "AI Assist" said "What do you mean by 'this'?". So I rephrased to "How do I disable AI Assist on Stackoverflow", to which it responded with "Generative artificial intelligence (a.k.a. GPT, LLM, generative AI, genAI) tools may not be used to generate content for Stack Overflow. Please read Stack Overflow's policy on generative AI here." Pretty ironic, but ultimately, useless. "We don't have plans to provide toggles turn off any AI Assist" - Personally, I really wish you did. For now, I'll use 3rd-party tools to hide this.
Dec 2 at 15:56 comment added Snow I've created a feature-request for this AI Assist to be toggled by users: Allow people to opt out of AI Assist. Let's see if that's a viable feedback route.
Dec 2 at 15:55 comment added Ash Zade Staff We're always open to reconsidering decisions like this. Let's see how the feature is used and the feedback we get across channels.
Dec 2 at 15:53 comment added esqew @AshZade That's rather disappointing to hear, and unfortunately predictable given Stack Exchange's similar decisions in recent past. I hope the product team will reconsider this stance. Thankfully, uBlock will do the trick just the same.
Dec 2 at 15:51 comment added l4mpi @AshZade better make some backup plans right now, because if I understand the OP correctly this is going to be added to the question pages in the future... if so, the backlash might be bigger than SE expects, and a "hide this forever" button might get you at least a tiny bit of community goodwill.
Dec 2 at 15:46 comment added Ash Zade Staff We don't have plans to provide toggles turn off any AI Assist components.
Dec 2 at 15:46 comment added l4mpi @esqew blocking the input field and the div above with ublock origin seems to work for now. But yes, I would also like a button in the settings that permanently hides all the LLM trash...
Dec 2 at 15:44 comment added esqew @AshZade Thanks for the prompt response. Any chance you can address my question emphasized above about how to deactivate this feature (short of using an adblocker on the associated DOM elements)?
Dec 2 at 15:38 comment added Ash Zade Staff Thanks for the feedback. Re: value in the IDE, we agree. This is the start, not the end of AI Assist. The current scope is for scenarios like where users hit a wall in their IDE and search or look for help. We know from our surveys and analytics that it's a need that hasn't gone away. Our future does include access in the IDE.
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