A New AI Feature

Every single app in 2024 is basically playing whack-a-mole with AI features nobody asked for. You boot up your computer and immediately get ambushed by some "helpful" AI assistant that's been silently enabled while you weren't looking. Turn it off. Open your email client. Another AI feature appears like a popup ad. Turn it off. Launch literally any software. Surprise! Here's another AI thing you'll spend the next 5 minutes hunting down in settings to disable.

The real kicker? These features are opt-out instead of opt-in because companies know damn well nobody would voluntarily enable half this stuff. It's the digital equivalent of those browser toolbars from 2005, except now they're "powered by machine learning" so investors get excited. Product managers everywhere are having fever dreams about engagement metrics while users are speedrunning the settings menu like it's a new category on speedrun.com.