I've been using Copilot a lot for work and have been more or less constantly annoyed at the fact that every other line it emitted from its digital orifice was prefixed with some random emoji. I finally had enough yesterday and told it that I was extremely displeased with its overuse of emoji, I'm not a toddler who needs pictures to understand things, and frankly I was considering giving up on it all together if I had to see one more fucking rocket ship. You know what it said?

"Okay, sorry about that, I will not use emoji from now on in my responses."

And I'll be damned, but there were no more emoji after that.

(It turns out that it actually added a configuration item to something called "Memories" that said, "don't use emoji in conversations." Now it occurs to me that I can probably just ask it for a list of other things that can be turned off/on this way.)