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Wes Cowley@wes.wordsbywes.ink |
This morning, I opened a PDF to find Adobe Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. That led to a rabbit hole of finding all the places Acrobat’s AI Assistant has to be turned off. Here they are: www.wordsbywes.ink/a...
#LLMs #AmEditing
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Rowena
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Paul Cohen
@paulecohen.bsky.social
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there's always Foxit ...
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Evil Count Erudite
@frozenpeas.bsky.social
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F***ing THANK YOU. I got the same thing, but didn't have time to dig beyond its own prompt to disable that one thing.
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cinder
@0xcinder.bsky.social
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If you’re just reading, I highly recommend Firefox or Sumatra or some other open source pdf reader.
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Stephe Harrop
@stepheharrop.bsky.social
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Thank you!
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Hugh Jackson
@hugeaction.bsky.social
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Thank you @wordsbywesink.bsky.social & @garius.bsky.social for reskeeting it to my timeline.
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Raygan 🧶
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THANK YOU
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Patchouli Woollahra
@woollahra.bsky.social
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We never asked for AI in our Adobe and this is a waste of the money we paid them.
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Martin Allen
@beebirdmoth.bsky.social
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Juli Gittinger aka Dr G
@jlgittinger.bsky.social
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Can you save a document that keeps this feature off? I ask since 90% of what I assign my students is PDF reading.
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Tanya Noel (she/her)
@tcnoel.bsky.social
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Thank you!
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greg 🇩🇰🚴♂️🎸⚽️
@amnesiac13.bsky.social
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This should be opt-in, not opt-out. I here in the EU this gets subsumed into GDPR or gets its own legislation
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Monica H Green
@monicamedhist.bsky.social
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Oh thank you!
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Teresa M
@teresasm.bsky.social
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Oh, thank you! I was wondering about this.
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Formica Dinette
@formicadinette.bsky.social
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Lotta Fjelkegård
@lottassociala.bsky.social
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Thank you!
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snowgall
@snowgall.bsky.social
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Skelenaut
@skelenaut.bsky.social
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Can someone please sue Adobe?
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Wes Cowley
@wes.wordsbywes.ink
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Adobe's instructions for disabling the AI on desktop don't seem work (at least on Windows). I didn't have the button my my desktop yesterday to test those. I got it enabled today, and just updated the post with two more options to disable it on the desktop version. See next post.
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Nerd
@babayaga25.bsky.social
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I would simply use a different PDF tool.
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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie
@maggiepye.bsky.social
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Mike - Towards a Metric America!
@navigatorbr.bsky.social
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Could Adobe just make fucking Adobe Acrobat actually work.
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Brandon Matthews
@thebmatt.bsky.social
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Is there a method to disabling this in the iOS app?
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Antronics Ltd
@antronicsltd.bsky.social
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Was the summary any good?
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@lazyranch.bsky.social
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Now this is one of the reasons I don’t use Adobe Acrobat despite its convenience. I use an app called PDF Filler which works just fine and doesn’t spy, poach, instruct or otherwise attempt to rule the world.
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Cody Wilson
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If you’re not using any of Adobe’s publishing, doc signing or other cloud tools, I highly recommend not using Acrobat at all. Every modern browser will let you view, fill forms, save and print. If you’d rather not use a browser, there’s also OSS PDF Viewing/editing tools.
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Nikujaga
@nikujaga.bsky.social
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I turned off that new interface. It opens all PDFs as tabs within the same window, whereas the old one lets each file open in its own window. Don't know why they removed that option.
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Miss Riss
@missriss.bsky.social
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Bless you for sharing this
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CaffieneKitty
@caffienekitty.bsky.social
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Well, all those were off and the bastard is still there, so I guess I’m cursed. 🤷♀️
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CaffieneKitty
@caffienekitty.bsky.social
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THANK YOU. Imma go murder that little shit. 😈
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Mambolica, ABD
@mambolica.bsky.social
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And lo, there it is, making its presence known in my desktop free version. I'm going to follow your timely instructions, right now!
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Jay Fee
@fixjong.bsky.social
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Nick Taylor
@tienelle.bsky.social
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Aaand it's happening in the cloud. Because it's totally appropriate to send my PDFs sailing across the Internet to someone else's computer!
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SpecsChic
@specschic.bsky.social
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📌 thank you
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Paula Shaw St. James 🟦
@paula72.bsky.social
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Thank you for this!
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Alex White is designing a romance game
@nalexwhite.bsky.social
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I couldn’t get past how monstrously horrible their ‘new UI’ is. Looks like they took the ‘mobile first’ design mantra and misunderstood it as ‘mobile view for everyone’ or some such nonsense.
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Jillジリアン
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For all the sci-fi I have read and watched, none of it predicted that AI would be so sneakily ubiquitous and so in our face!
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Robin Marwick
@electricland.bsky.social
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Ugh. Thank you for this!
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Catherine Boyle
@catherineboyle1.bsky.social
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Dharhix
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I know not everyone can do that, but my way of turning all that crap off is to avoid Adobe at all costs.
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DomTDom
@domtdom.bsky.social
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Trope A Dope
@tropeadope.bsky.social
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I am so glad I use Krita. God adobe is trash
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DNA-Five/Commodore Schmidlapp
@dna50505.bsky.social
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Thank you for the link! They really are trying to shove AI down our throats.
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Peb from Texas, AI Imageist
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Turning off Adobe completely freed my computer from enslavement, never again.
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Maroon Phoenix
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AveTeresa
@aveteresa.bsky.social
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My sister is an illustrator, her work often combining not-obviously-related images and various dialects of Gaelic, often archaic. Adobe AI was mystified by her files. She did wonder how it might annoy someone editing text in one modern language or more predictable images.
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Dee Carney
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LVLMLeah
@lvlmleah.bsky.social
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I noticed this too! I've seen the AI box on upper right corner but never clicked it. But today there was a pop-up I had to click off to access the PDF. Thanks for this.
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Joe Slater
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I find that it's easier — although still surprisingly hard! — to find all the places that Adobe itself has to be turned off. Mine kept coming back, for ages.
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Adele Buck
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James R.
@inanimatecarbongod.bsky.social
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So what do you when the AI assistant is present in Acrobat Reader but there's no generative AI option in preferences?
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Karl Magnacca
@kmagnacca.bsky.social
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Crap like this is why I still use Acrobat 9. No subscriptions, no cloud, no nothing.
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Elizabeth le Fen
@fenbeast.bsky.social
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Thank you for this. I asked the AI that suddenly showed up in Messenger to tell me how to turn it off and it gave me a very polite and not terribly direct response that boiled down to “you can’t.” Everyone I know who uses Acrobat hates the changes Adobe has made to it.
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Sara Hjelm
@sarahjelm.bsky.social
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Super useful … thanks
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Teif Lab
@teiflab.bsky.social
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What ate the dangers, is it sending the PDF to the cloud without permission?
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Joanna Redfeather
@joannaredfeather.bsky.social
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Thank you for this! 🙏
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
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Shimaira ⛥
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Father Draven 🚛:$127/400 🏳⚧♿👩👧👦
@willowdraven.bsky.social
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I disabled all the Adobe AI crap by hard canceling my Creative Cloud subscription. I had to get really aggressive and tell them I didn't want any more free months or discounts I wanted them to turn it the fuck off.
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FrancisDee (like Jesus, only cooler)
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Matthew Somoroff
@somoroffmatthew.bsky.social
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Thank you, Wes!
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Andrew
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Presumptuous for sure thinking that you want it w/o asking. But aren't you curious as to what information it offers? I find AI scary, but a bit fascinating as I think there could be a lot of good use to come out of it.
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