How to disable Copilot for all applications - Mac

this does not work. why does microsoft keep posting the same answer? i've done it all. all of it. i've turned off 'connected experiences' and still the stupid unwanted unasked for 'copilot' is there in word. doesn't matter about restarts or reinstalling or anything.

you've created an intellectually vacuous product that should be optional if someone needs AI to write something for them. every thinking person, writer, student, lecturer, poet, artist, person who wants to journal or write their own thoughts should not have to keep asking for detailed instructions to disable the damn thing that they didn't want.

if you genuinely were responsive to feedback you'd add in a disable button. but you don't. you just keep posting the same rubbish responses that do not work. imagine any other service - you go to a dr or a lawyer or buy an ice-cream and it's not what you purchased. they they try to charge you more to solve the issue, or otherwise provide pages of meaningless instructions about how you can do something yourself, or wind back a version of the advice provided or the product bought. perhaps you could try to separate the cream and the eggs or the wheat from the other ingredients to make a cone. sound like madness and an impossibility? it is. just like what you've created.

i note ironically that the damn co-pilot doesn't come on when i'm typing this response. why? because you don't want to use your own AI algorithm of complaints - they must be endless based on these comments alone in this forum, to say nothing of other forums.

so, will you create a disable feature or failing that, withdraw the upgrade and ask people to opt-in if they want it?

otherwise, how can I and hundreds of thousands of other people disable this unwanted dumb 'feature' that you have imposed on us? and please for the love of god don't just reply with the same useless unhelpful info that does not resolve this mess you've created.

It doesn't need to be so difficult to disable. But it is, and therefore, it's awful.

I am wasting part of my day on this. I disabled the expermimental features but the prompts are still showing up in my Word doc despite having turned off and out of Word and turned it back on again.

I did not ask for this. I do not want this. I have work to do.

Just as Camille said, even if you do all the steps they say to do to disable Copilot, it actually DOESN’T disable Copilot. They’ve forced this AI app onto us even though WE DON’T WANT IT. Now we have to waste precious work time trying to get the stupid thing turned off.

I’ve tried chatting with tech support. It says the service is “currently unavailable."

I know what they’re thinking: “Our users are just naive stupid people who will resist this really great AI product but if we shove it down their throats and make them use it, then they will see how great it is and will thank us!"

Wrong. This is a matter of consent. What is it that tech giants don’t get about that? Didn’t you learn from Apple’s snafu about shoving music into our music libraries against our will?

PEOPLE WANT CONSENT. THEY WANT CONTROL. IGNORE OR VIOLATE THOSE PRECEPTS AND YOU WILL ELICIT RAGE IN YOUR USERS.

This is crazy. I use Word to write Medicolegal assessment reports. If the opposing side sees a draft of my report that looks like I used Copilot to write it, I will be shredded in court and risk losing my medical license and thus my livelihood. I wonder is MS will pay my legal fees and the next 20 years of lost income? MS, I would appreciate your input.

Dear Cherry, I am a NYT Bestselling novelist, a book critic for People, and I do developmental editing for clients. For them to see a Copilot icon on every page and to think I am using AI (which I would never do, being a creative, thoughtful person), is damaging to my reputation and to my work. None of the tools have worked to remove it and every writer I know is really unhappy about this. How could you just drop this on all of us without asking us if we want or need it? (we don't.) How could you not be aware of the numerous lawsuits about AI pirating author's materials to train their AI? I don't want AI learning anything from my work--nor do my readers or my clients.

What do you intend to do about this? My social media is filled with angry people who just saw this in their Word program today.