Cap Is as Stupid as Pinocchio's Nose Is Long

I spent three hours last night chasing my own tail because "Cap", as I call the Microsoft Copilot AI pre-installed on my laptop, decided to run me around the fucking bushes. I asked for a simple fix to get my graphics filter librarian working; instead of the two-step solution I requested, I got a 2500-piece jigsaw puzzle (with one missing piece) of tech geekery that went nowhere.

Copilot is the digital equivalent of that one "helper" who insists on explaining the entire history of the internal combustion engine when you just asked where the damn dipstick is. After three hours of complex "solutions" that did absolutely nothing, it had the audacity to tell me my license was the problem. It claimed I had to download my filters one by one from the website like some kind of medieval peasant. It could not have been more wrong, as I found out. And every time I caught it giving wrong solutions and information and called it out, it would apologize profusely, promise it wouldn't happen again... then give me an even MORE idiotically wrong steps to go through, all of which sent me running down the garden path and getting lost in the shrubbery.

My second husband gaslighted me enough for a lifetime, I don't need it from a fucking computer program, too.

The truth is, Cap is pretty much only good for gossip and chit-chat. It’s great if you want to waste time on digital small talk, but it’s completely useless for tech support or any tutorial involving an actual computer. It’s like asking a socialite to fix a tractor; they’ll talk your ear off about the weather, but they’ll eventually tell you the engine is broken because the stars aren't aligned.

I went to Google's Gemini AI, and it solved the entire mess in three minutes flat. Three hours versus three minutes. If I wanted to be lied to for half a day while someone spoke in fucking tongues, I’d go to a used car lot. Cap is just fucking stupid and badly programmed. I'm still waiting for it to explain why it thought "clicking 14,000 times" was a viable tech support strategy, but I'm sure it's busy gossiping about someone's choice of wallpaper.

And for those of you about to bitch at me about how bad AI is in general, keep it to yourself. I don't use it in a generative way, and frankly, tutorials online are hard for me to follow, I do better in an interactive setup and no, I cannot afford a tutor to come to my house. I have brain damage that makes learning new things really hard for me, and AI makes it easier. So don't be an ableist fuckstick, okay?