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A librarian's guide to turning off AI hits 312 points on Hacker News
Jessamyn West of librarian.net published NoToAI.org, last updated August 17, after fielding repeated questions at library drop-in sessions about how to remove unwanted AI features. The guide gives step-by-step instructions for Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Android/Gemini, Alexa, Apple Intelligence and Siri, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Google Workspace, Slack, WhatsApp, Zoom, Windows 11/Copilot, and Yahoo Mail. The signal for builders is the source: this is not a tech-press hot take but a public-service reference maintained by a librarian for ordinary users who experience default-on AI as an imposition.
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