A Librarian's Guide to Disabling Intrusive AI Hits 312 Points on Hacker News
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librarian.net's 'How to disable or avoid intrusive AI' collects opt-out instructions across consumer software and drew 312 points and 186 comments. Its reception — alongside the BBC's secondhand-book-boom-as-AI-backlash framing — suggests a durable opt-out constituency forming among technically capable users, not just critics. If you ship AI features, the practical read is that a discoverable off switch is becoming table stakes rather than a concession.