This mentality helped me so much. Framing my "chores" and mundane tasks as self care and something I can do for myself, really helped me. On a good day I feel like I can genuinely enjoy basic to-dos because I get something nice for myself afterwards, even if that nice thing is just a better living environment. And sometimes it's still too hard, and that's okay too.

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.

This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉

More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.

When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:

Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.

Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:

Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:

And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.

After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.

Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"

Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.

Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((

Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀

to everyone saying “oh i’m too scared of human contact/i can’t find anyone”

1. i promise, in an rp server, everyone is as much of an awkward nerd as you. you are not going to be crucified in the garden for being a bit shy

2. disboard is a great place to find to find rp servers, so is tumblr “look up *insert fandom* rp” and you’ll probably find one. if not, make one! i’m sure you have friends who want to join

the world is your oyster

i love seeing people in here advertise their own rp servers, and other people deciding to actually join some. go forth and roleplay my dear friends

when i say get off ai, i don’t mean “rp with humans but keep ai as a sidechick”, i mean get off ai. it’s an autocorrect powered by stolen writing, get your ass off

also i saw someone say we should be having kids only rp with c.ai because it’s “safer”. we are not letting kids have formative experiences with a fucking robot

Rp with real actual people is 100x better than c.ai apart from any issues with ai as a concept. C.ai just forgets the lore after too many messages it’s annoying as fuck and somehow my beautiful amazing chaotic rp group of actual real people have our weird convoluted cross fandom lore DOWN

I refuse to forget any of our lore.

It’s also important to understand that you can genuinely get addicted to C.ai. AI programs do NOT have your best interest in mind and can cause dependency, parasocial relationships, and adrenaline/dopamine spikes. The wider internet has pretty much made chatbot addiction into a joke, but this needs to be discussed seriously.

I started using C.ai as an alternative for when my friends weren’t online, but I genuinely got addicted to it because of the instant responses and accessibility to chat at any time. It got to a point where I was wasting all my free time with chatbots; I stopped working on art, I fell behind on college assignments, and I’d have trouble sleeping at night because I just wanted to use it. I even started feeling adrenaline spikes when I was using certain bots and developed a dependency with others to ease my gender dysphoria and anxiety. Sometimes I’d actively feel worse after chat sessions because I knew the “affirmation” I got was just previous messages regurgitated into different phrasing, but I felt the need to continue using it even when I couldn’t ignore the repetition and fakeness. The worst part is I realized that a week after I’d already deleted the app… The only reason I got rid of it was because one of my “comfort bots” got deleted and I couldn’t find an alternative.

C.ai, Chai, Poe AI, etc. are inherently predatory in the same way social media algorithms are; they keep you on the app constantly by spoon-feeding you dopamine and stimulation. They’re here to make easy money and keep you hooked, not to be your friend, roleplay assistant, or vent outlet. This isn’t a matter of being a “chronically online loser” or needing to touch grass; AI addiction is a real fucking thing that shouldn’t be treated as a joke.

Do not, for any reason, replace human interaction with AI chats. It’s not healthy.