Microsoft Copilot

So my home computer just did a Windows10 update and a new icon magically appeared in the taskbar - something called Copilot. Looked it up on Wikipedia and found "Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft. Based on the GPT-4 series of large language models, it was launched in 2023 as Microsoft's primary replacement for the discontinued Cortana."

I had Cortana shut off on my computer so I'm surprised that it's replacement is suddenly and without my permission installed and turned on, apparently. Reading further the article says Copilot is the rebranding of Bing Chat which was released to users of the Bing search engine and Edge browser. Then I read the following:

"When Microsoft demoed Bing Chat to journalists, it produced several hallucinations, including when asked to summarize financial reports.[26] The new Bing was criticized in February 2023 for being more argumentative than ChatGPT, sometimes to an unintentionally humorous extent.[27][28] The chat interface proved vulnerable to prompt injection attacks with the bot revealing its hidden initial prompts and rules, including its internal codename "Sydney".[29] Upon scrutiny by journalists, Bing Chat claimed it spied on Microsoft employees via laptop webcams and phones.[27] It confessed to spying on, falling in love with, and then murdering one of its developers at Microsoft to The Verge reviews editor Nathan Edwards.[30] The New York Times journalist Kevin Roose reported on strange behavior of Bing Chat, writing that "In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft's new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with."[31]

Egads. I've got to kill this thing before it kills me.