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ferris_6246
ferris_6246
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April 27, 2026
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Make all your AI features optional so they do not fire up automatically when I open the program

  • April 27, 2026
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The performance of your apps have taken a significant hit since you have incorporated LLM style junk into them. Startup time and general usage are both adversely affected. There should be an intuitive way to turn this off completely. My job is too important to allow an LLM to summarize pdfs for me. Some humans are still capable of reading.

In some cases, AI tools are a huge help. In many others, they are an unnecessary burden being pushed upon us constantly while we are trying to work. Once again, I am capable of reading a pdf myself.     

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      unique_person4993
      Known Participant
      May 18, 2026

      Literally though, even outside of the AI “good vs bad” arguments, the way that everything is trying to FORCE people to use AI is absolutely ridiculous. The fact that Acrobat will silently install Copilot onto your computer if you haven’t dug into the settings to turn off all generative AI features was the final straw for me. I no longer have a personal Adobe subscription at home, only at work, where it’s not mine to cancel anyway.

       

      Let us turn it off, Adobe. Some of us aren’t going to use it no matter how much you force it into our faces. And what’s it to Adobe if we use it or not, if we’re already paying for a subscription anyway?

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