One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles. User-controlled execution. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice. No content may leave the computer without authorisation. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application. No telemetry of any kind. LibreOffice does not collect usage data, and this must also apply
  • partzel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The way the commercialization of LLMs just ruined the word AI, word processors have been using AI in other ways for ages

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      12 days ago

      People don’t realise that there’s more to AI than LLMs and chat bots, and that plenty of software has been using AI (machine learning, neutral networks, forecast modeling, etc) for at least a decade or two.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        That’s a technicality. The term AI do encompass a TON of things, but it is as irrelevant as saying “crypto” isn’t just the scam machine we know. For most people, it is. And for most people, AI is “Gemini/Claude/ChatGPT”. And telling them the difference isn’t gonna matter at all.

        I wonder if some people compiled a list of terms that got so removed from their actual meaning because of advertisement/commercial use. Like, “wifi” is synonymous to “wireless internet access” to so many people, and yet it’s actually not.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Because back then it isn’t a keyword smack across industry, not intrusive, without threatening every employees that they might left out, and no chip shortage. It’s a branding, you can’t blame people for not knowing.

      • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
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        12 days ago

        But this is a bit pedantic, people refer to GenAI when they say AI, you can blame corporations for using it as a magic word for investors

  • Gyrcas@piefed.zipEnglish
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    12 days ago

    It should also be a feature to have no AI used in the production. No AI assets, no AI concept art, no AI code, I don’t want any of that slop touching my software

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    It’s incredible how far we’ve got, as far as technology goes. A few months ago, we had to fight to get a device that would not connect to the internet. And now we’re fighting to find software that actually do what it’s supposed to do, and don’t do what it’s not supposed to do.

    Can’t wait for the next step. Heck, can’t even imagine what it will be at this point.

      • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        That makes me feel better… I disliked office 365. How does it compare with keyboard shortcuts? I barely use the mouse these days.

        As a side note, damn we are an old bunch here.

        • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 days ago

          I wasn’t much of a power user to begin with but the Calc and Impress programs felt almost the same with some minor UI changes that take some getting used to like having to open a pop up settings menu rather than check the tools ribbon.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    AI is shit. AI is decent.? When… People will argue.

    Let’s be honest and speak about it. IF and “AI” analyses and soley discusses what’s going on on your machine with no outbound channels while recommending when a appointment is in your calendar, how much of a check you should pay, or why your invite to the pool on Sunday interferes with your date night… The AI is “bad” for using resources. Way worse if it consults resources… it won’t for those tasks though. It will for image generation. (Should likely never happen). So honestly, if you were to say what you hate about it outside of public opinion, what is it? The theft of ideas? Makes sense. The theft of property 100%. Now that it’s done… what does a person do?

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Probably because Apache only makes a minor point release every couple years. 😆 Nobody actually uses Apache OpenOffice.

      LibreOffice says “Free and private office suite, no forced AI” but iirc their contribution guidelines are ai permissive.