I am so confused as to how the majority of people view this community.
This post right now shows -12 vote count. So does that mean this is a popular opinion..? Or do the majority of people not know how this works?
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Because users can smell a shill post a mile away
It could be traffic from outside this community, so they havent read the rules in the sidebar. Maybe people just hate copilot so much its a subconscious reaction lol.
LLM is just a slow way to do things that have better ways to do them.
Or to have an expensive autocorrect do your thinking.
Upvoted. It’s utterly useless.
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retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).
Perhaps I'm just one of "the olds" who doesn't get modern technology, and this is why I'm having a real difficult time imagining why I, or anyone, would ever spend time looking something up when the factual correctness is optional to begin with.
Yeah, if I don't care about correctness, i can just make it up myself
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upvoting because this is a good unpopular opinion.
unfortunately, microsoft is about ten years too early to the party, like they always are. what they offer isnt very reliable either, in my opinion
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No it's not
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No it won't. Not even becsuse it's shit, but becsuse it's Microsoft's and they sure as fuck aren't gonna put it in any OS other than Windows.
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It has not been added to every phone and isn't even 10 fucking years old. It's barely existed for 2.
Are you just using "Copilot," a specific brand of generative AI assistant program like the way a parent would call all video games "Nintendo?"
3. It has not been added to every phone and isn't
even 10 fucking years old. It's barely existed for 2.
It might be that they are conflating GenAI with services such as Google Assistant ot Siri. Though I personally find that Google Assistant is/was more useful that their GenAI implementation (Gemini).
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I'm not here to upvote, downvote, or argue, but I do not use this feature, desktop, mobile or otherwise, I don't even use the web pages like an ancient Internet user, LLMs only provide productivity when you already know what you're doing and you're basically guiding a toddler through a laser field, using the chat features for anything besides coming up with clever names you might name your next dog is basically never going to increase your productivity.
I disagree with your overall opinion for various reasons (relying on AI erodes researching and critical thinking skills; Copilot is dangerously unreliable in the majority of use cases); it is invasive to the point that it's creating a user backlash; there's are many serious social/emotional issues that are surfacing because of AI over-use; etc etc).
But I respect that you have shared a genuinely unpopular opinion here (in the right community). And you put your arguments forward in a well-worded and coherent way. So kudos.
ETA: I don't think it's appropriate to personally insult OP because of this post, as a small number of people here are doing. C'mon people, look at the community we are in and don't resort to such insults. This is a great topic for legit discussion.
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I don't know why people are downvoting this. It really is an unpopular opinion.
just sell your microslop shares, this isn’t happening
since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.
We just found out the person who makes job announcements asking for more years of experience with a technology than the technology's years in existence
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every phone
Not every one. I have GrapheneOS on the phone. And Linux on the computer. Like some nerds here. And there hasn't been any assistant popping up on mine...
Also don't think whether that's going to be built into any major operating system is much of an opinion. That's more a fact 😉
But yeah, whether that's useful... I've read all kinds of opinions on that. I think we need more factual data on user efficiency. I'm positive we'll get some more studies on that.
Not every one. I have GrapheneOS on the phone.
ah yes i forgot to list the 100 edge cases that cover 0.0001% of the phone market but you know what I mean.
I think we will get something similar to copilot on linux, obviously there will be distros that dont ship it but people are working on projects and once the open source models improve and the UI/UX workflows get polished up I believe major distro will ship them. The linux foundation owns the MCP protocol which is the goto protocol for AI's to interact with things.
I also doubt they provide a huge increase in productivity. I'd say between 0% and 10% productivty increase and its more of a quality of life and small time saver than a powerhouse productivty tool like its marketing suggests.
Phones, sure. I -personally- think it's massively problematic how the phone operating system ecosystem is basically a monopoly of two companies. And I almost can't do my paperwork or get a doctor's appointment or train ticket anymore without accepting to forward my personal information to a list of 40 "partner" companies, a good chunk of them abroad in the USA. And then it's massively complicated and I need 3 authenticator apps, and they do device verification and SafetyNet to make sure my(?) phone isn't controlled by me, but Google.
So yes, in reality it's not how I envision it to be. Phones just do what Google wants them to do and that certainly also includes Gemini AI. All of this is almost impossible to avoid, and it's getting harder each day. It certainly is that way.
(Same with edge-cases in general. I had to contact modern customer support lately, and that just got way worse than it already was before AI chatbots. We just don't do edge-cases any more. Everyone needs to get in line, have the same life and same common issues or they're screwed.)
With Linux, I doubt it. Traditionally it's a lot about choice. Caters to its user group who (on the desktop) include a good amount of privacy advocates, people with older computers, nerds... I think we'd need some paradigm shift first. Before any of the larger distributions change their defaults. I like to believe we're relatively safe here. And my biggest issue isn't AI in itself, but how large, annoying companies shove it down our throats. And that's really not how Linux works.
I've been pondering productivity as well. I once did some AI assisted coding. Took notes and did a similar task after that the old-school way. In that case AI had wasted time, I was faster without. But it's been a while and AI tools have improved in the last months. So I probably should repeat that experiment. And do it a couple times to get some solid numbers. I find it hard to apply it the exact right way, though. It'd underperform (on me) if I don't get the prompt right, feed it the right amount of context if there's a pre-existing project... It's better at some tasks and not so good at other ones... So with the current state of technology it's not that straightforward to delegate stuff to AI, and it'd just increase productivity. At least that's been my previous experience. But we get a plethora of contradicting and weird reports on AI's performance when used for coding.
Honestly if you think it's a good feature I challenge you to make a few short youtube tutorials demonstrating how to use it's helpful features. This will help to spread awareness, and helps convince people with evidence.
I have heard a lot of (what i think is) hot air from the microsoft head AI guy about how much it streamlines professional life and I would love if that was actually true, but I can't help feeling i would already know about these wondrous features if that was in fact the case. Because people would be gushing about them.
We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years
That seems like a good argument. People went crazy over siri and such.
LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).
I'm not sure when people ever need to retrieve information thet doesn't need to be correct, in a professional context. But thanks for being honest i guess.
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LLMs are by far the best way to retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct)
We already have proof that this is a popular feature for users since its been integrated in every mobile phone for the past 10 years.
you've obviously retrieved your thinking in the best possible way, by far.
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Well that’s definitely an unpopular opinion
I will supplement it by saying Gemini is actually a decent Google replacement for mundane searches
But copilot and ChatGPT are complete garbage
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