Feature Request: AI Assistant: Give users the option to disable the feature

[ckoerner]

Impacted plugin

Jetpack

What

I wish to be able to disable these features as I can other Jetpack modules

How

As the admin of a community blog I want people to write in their original imperfect human voice without unwanted interference from LLM tools. These tools bring an uncanny valley approach to uniformity and unoriginality in writing and are undesirable for our audiences. We have recently seen an uptick in recurrent phrases such as "rich tapestry" to describe normal mundane things – as an example of where these tools remove the humanity from writing.

The AI Assistant should be a configurable option as are the other modules contained within Jetpack.

[jeherve]

Thanks for the feedback!

While there is no toggle in the Jetpack Settings for this yet, there are currently 2 options which could help you I think:

1. Disable the AI Assistant in the block editor settings. That may not be something that really fits your needs, since that's something each author chooses to do:

2. Globally disable the feature on your site, via a code snippet.

You can do so thanks to the jetpack_ai_enabled hook: https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_ai_enabled/

You can add the code snippet mentioned on that page to a functionality plugin on your site, and the AI features added by Jetpack will disappear for everyone on your site.

I hope this helps.

[ckoerner]

Adding a note to this. We were able to disable the AI assistant feature, but now there's a new, seemingly separate feature that allows folks to generate a featured image from AI. Again, please allow users the options to enable and disable these features. Individually they may be innocent enough (I do not think they are) but as a whole these tools are ruining the internet.

[jeherve]

@ckoerner The option should indeed be hidden if you've used the filter I mentioned earlier. That's bug we should fix, separately from this discussion about adding an option in the interface to disable AI features. I opened #37615 to track this.

Thanks for the report!

[jeherve]

Also suggested in #38427.

[soatok]

This is a high priority issue for me.

[nodepunk]

Thanks for the link 😉 I've added the:

add_filter( 'jetpack_ai_enabled', '__return_false' );

To my functions.php file using the 'Code Snippets' plugin (paid version).

You can find and sync it here › https://codesnippets.cloud/snippet/nodepunk/Disable-Jetpack-755