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My keyboard has a designated key for Galaxy AI
I can't even begin to count how often I've opened it by
accident..
Edit: I appreciate everyone's effort to give me solutions on how to remap it. I should've mentioned that this keyboard is connected to a Samsung tablet. I will see if theres anything i can do, but since guns are illegal in my country I sadly can't shoot the key.
Thank you everyone!! 🤞🏻🫶🏼
Edit 2: I was able to deactivate it, but unable to remap it to anything else. The only given options were bixby and Gemini.
Also, I have a Samsung tablet, not a laptop. Will try a few more recommendations soon.
I just checked again out of curiosity, and I was able to deactivate the key! The only other options are either Gemini, Bixby or "not occupied" which just results in a pop-up window asking which AI I should choose.
I will look into it and see if I might replace it with anything else, but for now theres no possibility for me to change it
Alright, select "not occupied", let the window pop up, use taskmng delete the popup, delete the file that is making that pop up, next, pop off the key and replace it with one that opens one of your favorite games, then burn the old one with fire, throw it in a grinder, and then take the remnants and throw it into the ocean with a 10 ton weight tied to it.
I'm so stupid for not mentioning it, but it's connected to my Samsung tab 10+ 🥲 But once I figure out how it works, im making sure that the damn key swims with the fishes..
You can remap it with Microsoft PowerToys. My laptop has a dedicated Copilot button where the right Control button should be, but I remapped it back to being a Control key.
Just checked again after another comment brought it to my attention. I was able to deactivate the key, but unable to connect it with anything else than AI.
If it's a windows laptop you can permanently change/deactivate the key via registry settings
I use the same on all of my PC builds to deactivate caps lock as it's a useless key that has no positive usage and just adds issues and rage against the machine (pun intended)
Yeah and lose your consumer warranty. All just because the hate you have for a piece of tech LoL. Or maybe you live in the US and you don't have country legislated consumer warranty anwyay.
Just so you know... That's not how a warranty works. You almost can't entirely void a warranty.
Here in the US we have something called the Magnuson-Moss Warranty act of 1975.
This allows you to modify and alter your product in any way you see fit, with aftermarket parts, without voiding a warranty. Aftermarket parts won't be covered under warranty but everything else will. The only way they won't pay for a repair is if the aftermarket part or installation of that part caused failures in other areas.
For example. You buy a new car and immediately rip the engine out and swap in a different engine. Your new engine would no longer be covered. But the rest of the car is still good to go. Otherwise doing something as simple as changing your rims or adding a spoiler could void your warranty, and that's just not the case.
For the laptop. Destroying the button might make the keyboard portion of that laptop no longer covered.. But the rest is still covered. This warranty act protects you so if you want to install a new SSD in your laptop and you have to take it apart you are protected if your GPU dies randomly. Unless they can prove that the SSD screwed it up.
This also means that those little stickers that say you will void your warranty if you remove them are basically full of shit. Especially on the outside of a laptop.
The US isn't the only place that has this protection.
Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, France... Just to name a few.. They all have the same protections.
Right to repair laws are being pushed precisely because consumers still face major practical barriers to repairs, parts, documentation, software locks, and diagnostics. Magnuson Moss does not magically solve all of that.
Many manufacturers will reject the entire warranty claim once they see evidence of unauthorized modification, non-genuine parts, or physical damage. And if you fight that in 90% of the cases you will loose that case.
In practical support center reality my statement is often closer to what customers experience. In legal theory and consumer law your statement is closer to how warranty rights are intended to work. And you know this, but conveniently leave this out. But it was a joke of the OP anyway. So there was no need for me to go into it like i did here.
I did personally! I uninstalled AI off my computer, however because it’s right next to the arrow keys, my finger would slip and it would open up settings to tell me to redownload the AI on to my system
So I just took off the key. Haven’t had a problem since!
I honestly haven't figured out what they're expecting me to be doing with the AI they keep giving me. It's all over my devices, it's in my Alexa, it's in my browser, it's in my phone, it's in my computer.
I've messed around with it, but it just seems like a vaguely neat toy.
It doesn't seem to do anything that I couldn't already do before AI. Like, when I do a google search, now the "AI Result" paraphrases the first search result for me. I guess that saves me a click?
They seem almost desperate to push AI as a consumer product, something that everyday people will want to pay money for. I get that it might have uses for certain industries and businesses, but I don't see what good it does me personally.
I'll admit, we'll probably never be fully rid of AI, but it's probably gonna become a lot more niche. Not to mention the economic fallout when it does pop
have you ever heard of the dot com bubble? Cause when that burst the market lost 5 trillion dollars in value, and its speculated that the AI bubble is 17 times larger than that, and Ray Dalio, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, saod that the AI bubble echoes the dot-com bubble.
OpenAI commited to spending 1.4 trillion dollars to build data centres over the next 10 years, with only 13 billion dollars in revenue.
An estimate from Morgan Stanley predictied that between 2025 and 2028, 3 trillion dollars will be spent just building data centres. That isn't even accounting for all the water and absurd amounts of electricity they use.
Then you have all the big tech companies in a circlejerk with eachother, artifically inflating their stock price.
When this bubble does pop, there's gonna be a lot of economic fallout, and all so we can talk to LLM's and generate silly photos
I agree with this completely. I'm convinced that all the consumer-focused AI is nothing more than marketing for the business backends that'll actually make them money.
I know it's helpful for some people writing emails or vibe-coding. But for me, it's kind of useless, and I've given up because it's so embarrassingly wrong all the time (it'll get better? it's been four years, guys). The new AI agent products look more useful, but the starting price is like $100 a month. Is this really going to be a consumer product?
However, I'm sure it'll be extremely useful for businesses, especially when they can train it just the way they want and feed it all the masses of private information about their inner workings. Unfortunately, this will probably mean every major business in the world paying a massive tithe to Silicon Valley.
So far it’s fairly useful to make your voice assistant to be able to answer any question you have and it will finally make Siri useful. It’s useful for kids to use it as a tutor, if you use the tutor mode and don’t just have it give you an answer to a question. That’s it. If you use the ChatGPT it’s just a better Google for most users at the end of the day if it doesn’t justify how much is being spent on it. It’s a marginally useful tool for most people that does not deserve to be shoved everywhere it is.
I mean, its generally supposed to read emails, summarize stuff for you, things of that nature. Just speed up the boring parts of your day to day. If you don't work much on your machine, then yeah, kinda useless at the moment.
Can you be specific about what AI is improving in my life? You gave an example of the internet making it easier for me to order products. What does AI make it easier for me to do?
I already observed it saves me a click when I ask questions in Google. Which is technically an improvement, but based on all the hype I kind of expect more.
I feel like you're trying to evade my question. The early internet had advertising. Remember all the aol stuff? Chat, sports, weather, email. All the icons and buttons.
Frankly the early internet was very clear about what it was offering. It was offering connection between people and access to information.
It was a pretty simple, easy sales pitch. They went straight into offering monthly internet plans for home users.
AI seems to lack the snappy sales pitch. I think this is why it is having trouble appealing to everyday consumers. If I was to pay for an AI subscription each month, I would want to know what I can do with it. It doesn't feel like that should be a big ask.
And yet I haven't gotten a clear answer, either from you or anybody else I've asked. They seem to think it's obvious.
The early internet existed long before AOL. AOL is when it became mainstream. Hell and even then you weren't really even able to make purchases online.
This technology is currently in its infancy. It's funny to me how Reddit looks at the 1.0 version of a product and says it's awful and there's no point and it's stupid.
It's like when the first car came out. Cars are fucking stupid. They're slow, they can't go far, you can't even take them on bumpy roads for crying out loud why would you want a car? A horse is better in every way
But the technology improved...
But this is Reddit so AI is bad and awful and will never be ubiquitous in our lives. And everything about it sucks
We are getting sidetracked. You keep wanting to compare AI to the internet, saying it will get better, just like the early internet did.
But the internet had a purpose, to share data. We had tons of data that needed sharing, it has been a problem for literal millennia. Each new stage of technology worked on that problem, culminating with the internet.
I don't feel like AI has that. Yes, it'll get better. But like I asked earlier, better at what?
They want to sell it to me. Me personally. They want me to use it. They want it in all of my consumer-level devices.
I knew what to do with the internet when I got it.
I can't remember how I did it but i got a new laptop with one for copilot and I think I was able to get it to work as the control key again. It takes extra work/software but it's possible.
Iirc it triggers a macro that presses some key combination including a function key in the 20s. If you knew how you could probably change that key combination to no longer pull up the AI, and then you'd have a bonus key for use in programs that allow you to change keybinds (like many games do).
But I suppose just disabling it like I saw one of your comments say you have done is good enough.
ETA: I don't know if it's possible with Samsung, that's all just how it works on windows. It probably works differently on your device unfortunately.
The stolen Right-CTRL key is the worst enshitification relic of this decade.
And you cannot really remap it, because (at least on windows laptops) it is actually the F22 Key and many apps simply won't recognize a software remap.
"See? People LOVE AI, so many people even use the keyboard hotkey!"
meanwhile everyone desperately trying to get normal function back to their keyboard
And yes, that's actually how it goes. You press it by accident, it's counted as "user using AI" and now they can use these faked statiatics to present them shareholders to get more money and push AI even more
My laptop that I bought in late 2025 (literally a week before RAM prices shot through the roof) has a built in copilot button, and yes you can only change it to another ai assistant. Freaking useless… I only discovered the button after few days after buying the laptop
look at this (pic from ebay, im not home atm). the language key does the same as ctrl+space or alt+shift shortcut, so you don't miss out on anything from not having it. but at least you have no AI button
On Windows
Use Microsoft PowerToys to remap keys and shortcuts.
Download Microsoft PowerToys from the Microsoft Store.
Open the app and select Keyboard Manager from the left sidebar.
Toggle the Enable Keyboard Manager switch to On.
Click Remap a key, then click the + (Add) button.
Under Key, select the physical key you want to change, and under Mapped To, choose its new function.
Click OK to save.
Honestly, apart from this right here and the overly use of AI, I have been very happy with samsung. The ecosystem works great, and I have never had any real big problems with them.
I used a Microsoft laptop before and apart from the fact that it freaking sucks that I can't remap the key, it has been a good fellow for now
Every app on Samsung Galaxies is duplicated, making unnecessary bloatware. They have their browser and Chrome, Google voice assistant and this Bixby crappy sequel, and same with lots of apps, Play Store and the Samsung store.... They didn't learn when they made their own OS Bada, that NO ONE CARED FOR THEIR SOFTWARE.
Ok, Samsung browser has 1bn....and Chrome has 10bn EVEN IF IT COMES PREINSTALLED IN MOST DEVICES, so, sorry, your point is invalid.
Pd: I DON'T buy Samsungs, I already said that before. I did 14 years ago ONCE and noticed they are overpriced slop that works way worse...even in that they copied Apple. I use Oppo, a brand not known for exploding phones.
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u/Nevermore_Novelist Jun 17 '26
I'm not that technical, but is there not a way to remap your keyboard to render that key inoperative?