Community best practices for removing the AI Assist chatbox
The AI Assistant box on the StackOverflow homepage is unwanted by many users. Many users want to remove the AI Assist chatbox. In the comments of this question, @AshZade (a staff member) said "We don't have plans to provide toggles turn off any AI Assist components." Therefore, we should have community best-practices for removing the AI Assist chatbox.
Currently, I am using the uBlock Origin extension for Firefox with the following custom filters:
stackoverflow.com##.mb12.g8.d-flex
stackoverflow.com##.mb24.bg-white.w100.wmx7
This is fragile - a small change in the layout of the homepage would make the filter no longer work. Of course, it's better than letting the AI chatbox remain.
I'm marking this answer as community wiki - please edit in more reliable ways of removing the AI Assist chatbox.
Alterative options:
- Log out (@user400654) - the AI Assist box is only shown to logged-in users. Note that in the mobile view, the StackExchange icon with the log out option is not shown, so switch to desktop view to log out.