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Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by wruza » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:50 AM UTC

https://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html if you feel threatened or got tired of encoding/newline issues. Works as a drop-in replacement (replaces .exe).

https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad2/code/HEAD/tree/ for source code.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by deprecative » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:52 AM UTC

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #9

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #3

Sends everything you write to Microsoft.

Kinda defeats the point of “AI PCs” then…

You've got it reversed. AI PCs are just SPAs. You offload the workload to the client then send the resulting payload back.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by quyleanh » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:53 AM UTC

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #3

Sends everything you write to Microsoft.

When you want to rewrite something with such kind of AI, do you intend to send it somewhere else or you want to keep for yourself?

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by bakugo » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:53 AM UTC

At this point I wouldn't even bat an eye if someone tried to sell me an AI toilet that uses an image recognition model to analyze my bowel movements.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by jpnc » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:54 AM UTC

esperent wrote: post #5

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #3

Sends everything you write to Microsoft.

Unless and until I see a clear privacy police analyzed by a lawyer, stating categorically that this doesn't happen, I think it's wise to assume that you are correct here.

There's a reason Windows went from 'MyComputer' to 'This PC'.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by ch1kkenm4ss4 » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:54 AM UTC

They should also convert it to Electron.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by nehal3m » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:55 AM UTC

sethammons wrote: post #7

Notepad and plain text is the last place I want AI. I just want a place to type and paste non-formatted (outside of whitespace) text.

Yeah, not everything needs an LLM tacked on. Notepad is a lesson in tool minimalism; it serves a lot of use cases precisely because it has a small feature set.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by lintfordpickle » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:57 AM UTC

Signing in to MS to use notepad? Nah I don't think so

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by aithrowawaycomm » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:58 AM UTC

Auracle wrote: post #8

sethammons wrote: post #7

Notepad and plain text is the last place I want AI. I just want a place to type and paste non-formatted (outside of whitespace) text.

There’s probably a way to turn it off but I hate how it auto opens the last file now.

The addition of tabs to Notepad has made me stop using it entirely. My entire workflow around it was having separate windows for each document that I could move and close freely. Having an all-in-one-place Notepad filled with the ghosts of API tokens past is precisely the opposite of what I needed.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by rebolek » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:00 AM UTC

what about MS Paint? Can it get AI assistant to create shitty pixel art?

Edit: Oh. It does too.