More AI tomfoolery...
So, I noticed something last night when saving my work. With Ellipsus having a few issues with not saving recent changes with documents, I've taken the "can't be too careful" approach and started backing up to Microsoft OneDrive, since it's never, ever lost anything. As you guys who pay attention know, I moved away from it because it kept freezing and I didn't want to be constantly mithered into using it's Copilot AI feature. When it first rolled out, I felt like it was being pushed on users very aggressively, and I wanted no part of that.
So, I copy/pasted the changes, using right click, and noticed that the part where it mentions using their AI feature to edit was shaded out. Funny, I thought, since I'd noticed it there before when right clicking, being that it was a bane of my existence I always felt was thrust upon me. The cursed little Copilot emblem was still there staring at me at the side of the doc, too, offering its suggestions I'm never going to use, but the editing feature wasn't available. So, being curious, I dug into why.
To use Copilot fully, users now have to pay an extra ONE HUNDRED POUNDS per year for the pleasure of consulting a machine. £100!!! I have the basic £89.99 subscription for home and work, as I use Word and Excel at the office in my daily working life, but never the AI features as I simply don't need them.
Can you imagine though, being charged that much if you did come to rely on it? I see what you did, Microsoft. Included the full use of the Copilot feature when it launched, got people used to using it and then whisked it away and put it behind a paywall! The sneaky, sneaky bastards!
Never been so glad to not have relied on anything as I am this! So, if there is anyone out there reading this who does use this AI tool for work and suddenly realises you don't have the full Copilot features, this is why. Capitalist bullshit.
I see you, Microsoft. I bloody see you.
















