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You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint

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133 points artbristol | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 17:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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antiloper ◴[30 Oct 25 20:09 UTC] No.45764750[source]▶
Copilot is the most incompetent AI tool I've ever used, which is bizarre since you'd think with the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership they'd make it so that Copilot uses the ChatGPT model.

It's most egregious on Azure, which has a copilot button on every page, and anytime I try to ask it about a precise configuration question for a resource, it NEVER answers correctly. So you have to search on whatever set of microsoft Q&A platforms, stackoverflow questions, and github issues/discussions to maybe find an answer like in the prehistory of 2020.

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1. meetingthrower ◴[31 Oct 25 03:21 UTC] No.45768017[source]▶
Or how about the excel copilot which can't do anything inside a cell???? You can't call it in a formula either.

Or how about outlook copilot, which can't do the unbelievably simple task of figuring out when someone asks for a meeting at 1pm tomorrow and you press make invite to actually pre-fill 1pm tomorrow as the meeting time????? ARGH!

And we are worried about fast takeoff and the singularity? Give me a break.