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

[raymondh21359374]

That solution works until Adobe opens again. Then, AI is back. I need another way to get rid of it.

[hazel_7086]

Try my solution below. And I really don't know how I got there, but I didn't have close anything out and it worked immediately.

[Jaydraisadragon]

Thank you, Ed May, for putting into words my exact feelings about the "AI Assistant."  May we all experience technology without the useless AI "enhancements" in the future!  Cheers! 

[TANSTAAFL]

I have finally worked it out. 

Adobe is a front for AI (the mindkiller) it is taking over the known world ( and also the unknown) we are not going to get anywhere now we have released the genie. BUT  if you revert to the previous version and go into Task manager and click on the right settings to stop updates you too can have a relatively AI free Adobe experience, sort of.

[hazel_7086]

I have no idea how I got here, as I have tried so many things, but this actually worked (on a PC) - toggle off the ai per the below: 

[LegTech]

This solution is only relevant for using acrobat within chrome. I typically avoide using chrome at all. 

[hazel_7086]

I'm not so sure that's true (Chrome).  I can open the adobe program and no issues, separate from chrome. I have a place I go where the pdf's are automatically opened in Chrome, and that's where I was having the ai popup driving me insane.  This fixed it.  So, maybe we're not having the same issue, other than that ai is driving us over the edge.

[LegTech]

At the top of your image is a url which states that it is a chrome extension with the url "chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/browser/js/options.html". 

I have the same extension. However, I don't do a lot of work in chrome except for accounting. So, I don't encounter it much. I can state that I have the same selector ticked off. This option has no effect on the actual program. Only the extension within chrome.