How can Turn off the 'AI Assistant'?

[Edwin38637954oaar]

How can I get rid of the horrible 'AI Assisitant' ? I hate, hate, hate, hate eeverything about it. I hate the popups that constantly get in my way every time I open a new PDF, I hate the way it dramatically slows down the application every time I want to just search for something, and I hate that way that it doesn't work at all or provide any value of any form. I just want it gone and never, ever, ever, ever, under any circumstances want it to be there getting in the way of every simple thing I want to do.  Please, please, please, please: how can I make it just go away? I just want to open and look at a PDF for heavens sake, I don't need any of this AI nonsense.

-Ed May

[SixSigmaGuyG]

I was working for Microsoft at the time.  Your comment really gave me a chuckle.  We all turned it off internally too 🤣😂

[Chris34961083hwcx]

I agree with you Edwin- that is Adobe relentlessly trying to push their AI tools on creators. Incredibly irritating.

[PMDigital_Teri]

I am activily learning alternatives to these programs now, and cancelled my subscription. The AI stuff is one problem, but there just seems to be on going bugs and problems that never seem to get fixed. We do not get the features we want/need and just get the features Adobe want's to monitize. 

Like in Acrobat pro if I use the classic interface it never remembers my favorite tools. They keep clearing and I have to go looking for "Print Production."

Then the other day I tried switching to the "New and Improved" File Dialog in Indesign. It's stupid. It takes me longer to set up a new document than it used to, and it kept clearing my inputs if I typed too fast. So I had to swtich back to the old New File Dialog. 

Adobe is heading down the same road as Quark did years ago. They think they have a stanglehold, treat their customers like crap, and then everyone leaves as soon as a decent alternative comes around.

[JTeam_Dad]

I have been trying to do this as well but the button will never go away. I hate AI for 99.99999% of the things that people feel that they feel they need to use it. It is worse to have it forced on me. But all my research has seen that Adobe doesn't care and will not allow us to remove those features from their application. I just want a basic reader so that I can see documents and not much more. So I guess I will just drop Adobe like so many others have and download some basic reader from somewhere else. The option is off, but button stays even after saving and shutting down. Stupid!

[Label İkitelli]

Hi,

Please check for remove

https://www.pdfgear.com/chat-pdf/how-to-disable-adobe-acrobat-ai.htm

Or with power shell (admin)

$Path = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown'
if (!(Test-Path $Path))
{
$null = New-Item $Path -Force -ErrorAction Stop
}
New-ItemProperty $Path -Name bEnableGentech -PropertyType Dword -Value 0 -Force

Best Regards

[JTeam_Dad]

The real answer I finally figured out is to just go to the hamburger menu and simply click on DISABLE NEW ACROBAT READER and click OK. That got rid of everything that was bugging me and returned to the regular reader. Didn't have to do any reg edit or use their suggestion of disabling the AI crap that does nothing. I don't know why they make it so hard to turn it off but I hope this will save everyone's sanity and hopefully Adobe will put it as the number 1 solution and take out anything that referes to that stupid disabling AI crap.

[ROLAN8674]

DISABLE NEW ACROBAT worked for me as well.  This is yet another "Dark Pattern" by Adobe.

[ROLAN8674]

The correct answer is actually to click the hamburger menu and DISABLE NEW ACROBAT READER and click OK

[Clare23177575b2ie]

Hi all,



You need to be forwarding these communications to your Adobe account
manager too. It seems Adobe will do nothing unless we bombard those who
have power to initiate change!



And only positive change, which AI is NOT!!

[mpalys]

 I AGREE!! Acrobat used to be easy and fun to use. Now it's a constant spinning circle I can't get any work done.

All my AI is off in preferences but it is still taking over my screen.

Who ever thought this was a good idea?
I used to love Adobe, but first Express being sloggy, now Acrobat.

Adobe, you went and ruined a really good thing. Not every piece of software needs AI

Not every person needs to have AI in their face-constantly - when they're trying to get work done without distractions

Fix it before you lose alot of us

[Crazyhorse]

The AI is spectacularly dumb and should be renamed AS (as in artificial stupidity). I have a train ticket in PDF, and Adobe’s AI offers to summarise it for me.

[lanaom]

I completely agree with with Edwin38637954oaar. Suddenly ever tech company wants to have us yet again subscribe to the latest gadget which is really annoying, I have worked extensively with OenAI as a retired CPA, and it relies on third party articles which are really just marketing pieces often containing errors. It doesn't even seem to have the capability of really understand IRS regulations. In dealing with my frustrations of Adobe AI, I find that the only way to exit a PDF caught up its AI  spiders web, is to shut down my iPad and restart it again. 

[TANSTAAFL]

I don't want to interact with my PDFs, I created them, they are as I want them, they are not sentient (I hope) and I object to AI in all its insidious forms. I have a brain, and 4 uni degrees I will never succumb.

[LJ_3237]

The suggestion does not work. AI Assistant is still visible in the upper right corner of Adobe, every time I open a PDF.

I don't want to see it at all as I will never use AI Assist. Please stop forcing this technology on us. We never asked for it.

[JTeam_Dad]

Lisa... do you us a Mac or PC... My instructions were for PC... I know nothing about Macs as I have not used one since the 1980s. But I stress that you must click on the Hamburger menu (three black lines stacked on top of each other) and not the word Menu next to it and look for Disable New Acrobate Reader to remove all the AI crap.

[LJ_3237]

Sorry, I should have included the OS info. I'm on a Mac and am using the free version of Adobe Acrobat. There is no hamburger menu.

[LJ_3237]

I figured it out. The "Disable New Acrobat Reader" is an option under the View menu. Whew!

Thank you for your response though.

[Clare23177575b2ie]

NOTHING works. I say NOTHING…. Because I initiated this discussion and
have tried EVERYTHING!!!



AI is THE worst invention known to man. All of you younger than 30 years
of age are going to be inflicted with Alzheimer’s disease because you won’t
be using critical parts of your brain to think and those parts will simply
shrivel and die!!!

[JTeam_Dad]

Nothing works on MAC I guess but on PC, it works. Just have to not be confused by the term Hamburger Menu and the MENU word next to it.

[LJ_3237]

Trust me, I hear you on the negatives of generative AI. (There's a new study from MIT about the use negative effects on one's brain and creative & critical  thinking from using LLMs and CGPT. The article is in Time mag. It's a small sample size, but still..).

Anyway, if you have the free version of Reader, then you can revert back to the previous version of it. Try going into the View menu and select from the drop down, "Disable new Acrobat". Adobe will automatically restart.
The AI thing that appears in the upper right corner should disappear after that.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The button is still there regardless of the preferences. Technically, it is off even if the button is still visible. 

First, simply don't click on the button. Problem solved.

Second, if you DO click on it, you have to click the Enable button at the bottom of the screen before it will work. 

[LJ_3237]

The button shouldn't be visible though. That's poor UI functionality. The default for Generative AI and the AI assistant shouldn't be "On". The user should have to enable the feature if they want to use it, otherwise it should be hidden. 

I know user feedback isn't really important to Adobe...but, it should be. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I agree with all your points but until. you convince Adobe to change it, that's the way it is.

[LJ_3237]

It's fixed on my end. I reverted back to a previous version of Adobe. 

Voila!

No more AI features displayed. Hooray.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

It's fixed on my end. I reverted back to a previous version of Adobe. 

Voila!

No more AI features displayed. Hooray.

By @LJ_3237

Correct--that option was mentioned twice on Jan. 28th (and on other similar threads). 

Bascially, revert back to a version before the feature was introduced. However, I wouldn't be surprized if Adobe disables the interface revert sometime in the future. 

I always wonder who the people are that Adobe gets these feature requests, such as the new interface, from and how they determine it's a feature worth implimenting. Adobe _must_ do some marking research on this stuff. However, sometimes I wonder if the programming team does this stuff just to justify their existance. 🤣