General handbook update

[william.gosvener2@gmail.com]

How do I permanently disabled or perferaby delete the AI search Assistant found in the latest version of the general handbook?

[garystroble]

How do I permanently disabled or perferaby delete the AI search Assistant found in the latest version of the general handbook?

Is there some reason you wish it to be removed? Can you just ignore it?

[ambldsorg]

How do I permanently disabled or perferaby delete the AI search Assistant found in the latest version of the general handbook?

I don't know how to permanently disable it (yet) but if you open the handbook in a private tab (or incognito mode) or logout of your account there is no assistant:

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[sbradshaw]

How do I permanently disabled or perferaby delete the AI search Assistant found in the latest version of the general handbook?

I don't know how to permanently disable it (yet) but if you open the handbook in a private tab (or incognito mode) or logout of your account there is no assistant:

In the Gospel Library app, signing out will also keep your annotations from syncing (notes, highlights, bookmarks, study plans, etc.) and prevent you from seeing ward-based tools (like elders quorum lessons or sacrament meeting hymns). It's true that signing out will cause the search assistant to not show, but I don't think it would be worth it with the other things you'd lose.

[ambldsorg]

How do I permanently disabled or perferaby delete the AI search Assistant found in the latest version of the general handbook?

If you're using FireFox you can add something like the following to your userContent.css and it will disable (or more accurately hide) the AI search assistant:

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[class*="aiChatBot-"] { display: none !important; }

It will probably also disable it on every other website that is using that same class name, so caveat emptor applies.

[fmyers]

The ever present search assistant bubble is not a great idea. The 'Just ignore it' response is not great either.

If the developers thought we needed a 'better' search tool wonderful. Build a tool and give us the option to turn it on or not. Forcing it on all the time seems to be a lazy implementation.

As was previously mentioned, the 'logout' solution is a less than acceptable solution for the reasons listed in the previous comment.

Make it selectable or get rid if it.

[rmrichesjr]

The ever present search assistant bubble is not a great idea. The 'Just ignore it' response is not great either.

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Make it selectable or get rid if it.

The decisions on what features to add and how to make them work are made a few levels above the developers. Nobody who could influence the implementation of your suggestion is likely to see this thread. Please use the Feedback button or link and/or ask your stake president to send your suggestion up his chain of command.

[davesudweeks]

The ever present search assistant bubble is not a great idea. The 'Just ignore it' response is not great either.

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Make it selectable or get rid if it.

The decisions on what features to add and how to make them work are made a few levels above the developers. Nobody who could influence the implementation of your suggestion is likely to see this thread. Please use the Feedback button or link and/or ask your stake president to send your suggestion up his chain of command.

Yes, please send feedback through official channels. However, don't get your hopes up that your feedback will result in a quick change (or any change at all). We're told all feedback is read, but whether or not our feedback is acted upon is another matter. We're also told the developers are given tasks from the sponsoring organizations in the church - they don't have the freedom to take on action in feedback on their own. In very rare cases (once that I can recall with the FamilySearch website), my feedback has eventually resulted in a change (when it did, I sent more feedback thanking them for the change).

[ambldsorg]

If the developers thought we needed a 'better' search tool wonderful. Build a tool and give us the option to turn it on or not. Forcing it on all the time seems to be a lazy implementation.

I agree that it should be an option that can either be enabled or disabled, but that's not what we have right now. Did you see my post just before yours where I gave an example on how to get rid of it? It does work, and continues to work (because I don't have the "Search Assistant" when I login).

[sbradshaw]

Forcing it on all the time seems to be a lazy implementation.

The Settings section of Gospel Library would get pretty crowded if you could turn every feature on or off. Where would you draw the line for which features should be toggleable?

And do you think that most people would take the time to go into settings to turn things on or off? I think very few users would know about the Search Assistant if it were buried in settings. And if nobody knows about it, what would be the purpose of building it?

You may not like AI, but many people (especially younger users) use it daily to find answers to their questions – for better or for worse. If the Church doesn't provide tools that are comparable to what the rising generation is used to, they will go to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude instead. I don't use chatbots every day like some people do, but I believe this quote from Brigham Young: "Every discovery in science and art, that is really true and useful to mankind, has been given by direct revelation from God. ... We should take advantage of all these great discoveries ... and give to our children the benefit of every branch of useful knowledge, to prepare them to step forward and efficiently do their part in the great work." Deseret News, 22 Oct. 1862, 129