My work enabled Gemini in Workspace this week...
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If your Google workspace is managed by an administrator, you may not have the rights to disable it. Even if you disable it in your account, if the group policy has it turned on it'll still operate.
If you're allowed to use Firefox and ublock origin, you can block it at the page level. Scripts can't run if they don't load.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It is managed, but I can disable smart features and remove it as an app. But it still pops up constantly (basically like an ad). If you try to do anything from the pop-up, it tells you it needs to be enabled to work. So, it knows it's disabled but still shoves itself in my face as if I accidentally clicked into 4 different deep settings pages to disable it lol.
I can and do use FF, but I use Chrome for Workspace because .... stupid company policy reasons. It works in FF, but the way they have SSO configured, you get logged out every 45 minutes.
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And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.
I have a colleague who is basically illiterate (English as first language, too!) and she recently started using Gemini to E-mail people and it’s so embarrassing. People think they’re just talking to an LLM chatbot, which I suppose they might as well be.
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I have a colleague who is basically illiterate (English as first language, too!) and she recently started using Gemini to E-mail people and it’s so embarrassing. People think they’re just talking to an LLM chatbot, which I suppose they might as well be.
If a coworker doesn't bother to write the email, I'm not going to bother reading it lol.
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If a coworker doesn't bother to write the email, I'm not going to bother reading it lol.
Ugh these E-mails go out to clients, but our E-mail’s are tracked in our database so if one of us is out, the rest of us can help a client in need. Reading her outgoing E-mails is painful.
The other day, she called someone by their dead wife’s name, and didn’t even answer their question. She also survived the latest round of layoffs, much the the chagrin of the rest of us on the team.
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Ugh these E-mails go out to clients, but our E-mail’s are tracked in our database so if one of us is out, the rest of us can help a client in need. Reading her outgoing E-mails is painful.
The other day, she called someone by their dead wife’s name, and didn’t even answer their question. She also survived the latest round of layoffs, much the the chagrin of the rest of us on the team.
and didn’t even answer their question
TBF, that's like half the email replies I get when I ask a basic question.
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And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.
My job just sent out an email saying to use the “corporate version” of chatGPT for work. I was stunned that feeding our incredibly sensitive documents to an LLM wasn’t a fireable offense.
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Adobe Acrobat is doing something similar. I need to read documents in full, line by line, I don't need a summary, but I always have to close a bar that takes up screen space.
Go into your settings -> AI in the list and turn everything off
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And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.
someone requested some LLM to access our github repos (all 900 of them) recently.
the company I work for is a very AI positive. I however, am not.
instead of outright rejecting the request I have ignored it.
in 3-6 months I'll reject it, until then I'll just keep ignoring it and making up excuses when it comes up.
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someone requested some LLM to access our github repos (all 900 of them) recently.
the company I work for is a very AI positive. I however, am not.
instead of outright rejecting the request I have ignored it.
in 3-6 months I'll reject it, until then I'll just keep ignoring it and making up excuses when it comes up.
Right decision if there is no guarantee that the repos will just be used for training.
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Clippy has returned.
I see it's been a while since we met, would like me to show you a slide show of my Ozarks vacation in 2003?
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And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.
It's like Gemini is Clippy if he transcended is original form.
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And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.
I am unfortunately forced to use the azure portal for work so I use ublock origin to pick and block all AI buttons I see. Much cleaner now
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someone requested some LLM to access our github repos (all 900 of them) recently.
the company I work for is a very AI positive. I however, am not.
instead of outright rejecting the request I have ignored it.
in 3-6 months I'll reject it, until then I'll just keep ignoring it and making up excuses when it comes up.
This is the way lol.
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I have a colleague who is basically illiterate (English as first language, too!) and she recently started using Gemini to E-mail people and it’s so embarrassing. People think they’re just talking to an LLM chatbot, which I suppose they might as well be.
Yup. Stupid people is how we got here.
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My job just sent out an email saying to use the “corporate version” of chatGPT for work. I was stunned that feeding our incredibly sensitive documents to an LLM wasn’t a fireable offense.
Well wouldn't it be funny to add as a post scriptum to every email send to clients to include the sentence, all data and responses are managed and processed by ChatGPT?
It would get you fired of course, but god damn, that might actually ruin the company
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And this is AFTER I went in and disabled smart features and remove it as an app.
Every single fucking Google meet. God fucking forbid I hover anywhere near that dreaded icon, the popup gets in the way of everything and does its best not to close. And if one invitee isn’t present, the constant nag of “want me to transcribe for this person?” Is incessant. I hate it so goddamn much and it’s relentless.
