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AI Has Come for Sweet, Innocent Notepad (gizmodo.com)

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[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

It assists with refining your writing by rephrasing your sentences, modifying your tone, and tweaking the length of your text based on your preferences.

I don't remember when was the last time I wrote a full sentence in Notepad yet alone needed an Ai redaction. Because it's a fucking notepad! It's for writing notes not essays!

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 5 days ago

Notepad++

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

More like Notepad--, amirite

[-] fishbone@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Dunno if I'm misunderstanding you or you're misunderstanding the person you replied to, but Notepad++ is a third party program unaffiliated with windows or notepad. It's also an astronomical step up from notepad and it's free and has optional plugins and whatnot.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I'm aware, it was mostly a joke about these "features" making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

asks AI politely to show line break characters

[-] pseudonym 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh my God, AI and a subscription model. Kill me now.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

Of course subscription

Didn't you know that AI can only run on servers?

/S, of course

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

First, they came for Wordpad, and I did not speak out--because I did not use Wordpad...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

Well that's weird, because I didn't need AI to improve my writing.

All it took was one very good and very short book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

I don't agree with everything in it, but I agree with most of it.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Personally I don't use Notepad for writing writing. Its a functional writing app. A app for copying and pasting code, or making a list, or crude ascii art. If I need to bold something, or do text formatting, thats when I open up the several orders of magnitude larger office apps.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

That's another issue, but I agree. I was just addressing the idea that this is what people need to help them be better writers.

All this will do is to teach them how to better write specific sentences. If they even read the suggestion before using it.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah. I hate reading "essays" generated by an AI.
Keep it short for better reader experience.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

Everytime I see a commercial where someone uses AI to make something larger and embellish and such, I think of the other commercials where people use the same AI to summarize it for them.

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[-] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

Enshitification will continue until moral improves.

[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 27 points 5 days ago

That's stupid, notepad is meant to be simple....

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

https://www.textpad.com/home

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

I love notepad++, but to me, both have different uses. Notepad is like my basic sticky pad just to copy-paste basic stuff to it and come back to reference throughout the day. Also, notepad opens instantly and everything else is slightly slower. It's just the reason why I like it more. Notepad++ is for editing and manipulating data for me.

[-] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

One of the uses of notepad was also that it's installed by default, and was a place you could be assured wouldn't mess with your text. No formatting, no weird characters you didn't ask for.

Notepad++ is great, but you can't be assured it's installed on any arbitrary Windows machine.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

And ephemeral unless you specifically wanted to save something. Since I got win 11 at work instead of disappearing on reboot the next time I open it I get 50 fucking notepad instances and I can't find the actual doc that would've been useful to save because its in a background tab. Fuck this shit.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

You can turn it off, but the fact that you have to go into the settings and toddle about is ridiculous.

It's a notepad, why does it even need settings to twiddle?

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3

and honorary mention

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metapad

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Or for the masochistic windows user in your life:

https://www.vim.org/

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The fuck? This must be on Win 11. My Notepad still has to be told whether to search Down or Up, just like in 1990.

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

As it ahould be!

[-] morriscox@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Recently, another innocent app, Notepad, also got some AI features.

Dude, you just talked about Notepad. You are thinking of Microsoft Paint. Your article needs to be proofread.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 22 points 5 days ago

Almost like an AI wrote it

[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Oh yes, I write my articles in notepad, how did you know?

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Classic windows L. Come to the light side come to the linux master race.

[-] sag@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Please put AI in my toilet too. Please I am begging.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

you are joking but I am sure that will come too, toilet AI doing health checks based on the color and consistency of your poo

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

And the collected data will be sold to every type of insurance provider you have.

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[-] dan@upvote.au 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Why are they adding this to Notepad rather than Word?

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I'd guess the codebase that keeps Word running is so convoluted by now they have trouble shoehorning it in.

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[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 7 points 4 days ago

AI will never come for vim!

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago

https://github.com/madox2/vim-ai

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 10 points 4 days ago

[-] jdw@links.mayhem.academy 9 points 4 days ago

That’s LLM bullshit, sir.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Imitation Intelligence, captain.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Notepad++ ftw

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of notepad . . and will soon see the end of text entry itself.

*ohhshh . . pahhhh*

[-] Rukthag@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Is this so a user is assisted with AI or is it more that it’s yet another vector for Microsoft to be gathering more training data?

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Why not both?!

[-] MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Oh god not Notepad!

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

As if the new notepad wasn't already enough of a downgrade.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Why, yes, I believe I will gladly pay for your AI Notepad bullshit, Microsoft! Sign me right the fuck up.

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 4 days ago

Who cares, life was never the same after Wordpad passed away.

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[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 5 days ago

Forgetting about the intrusion of shitty LLMs everywhere for a while... Who the fuck even uses notepad for something they would need redacted?

It's not a actual writing tool, it's a basic text file editor.

[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

And a formatting-stripping tool

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[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 days ago

Well the headline got a chuckle out of me anyway. Still happy with Neon and it's lack of AI bullshit.

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