# Is the shortcut to start AI conversation a user setting or not?

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**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [May 23, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-shortcut-to-start-ai-conversation-a-user-setting-or-not/309113 "2024-05-23T01:54:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-shortcut-to-start-ai-conversation-a-user-setting-or-not/309113/1 "2024-05-23T01:54:22Z")

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Talking about this icon, that users with bot access see:

![The image shows a horizontal array of four icons, which from left to right depict a speech bubble, a robot head, a magnifying glass, and a stylized human face. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/c/1/0c1e92c5a3928a1b4105f44ee7b10bb9146d145b.png)

We ran an internal poll and 25% of our company did not like it.

My assessment is that the people that do not want a robot on top divide into 2 groups:

1. People who are deeply offended by the aesthetics of an extra icon in the header.
2. People who see no value in leaning on AI conversation to add productivity to personal workflows on current site.

Regardless of which group people are in, the split … does make me ask the question on “Are we missing a user setting?”

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I totally get the offense here.

> Why does “create conversation with robot” get prime real estate when create a topic is buried?

And

> I expect a button here to open an “interface” a place where all my AI stuff is. It is just a fancy “start a PM” button.

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The reason we settled on the current location and mechanics is to reduce friction and provide an easy way to start these conversations on mobile, that said there are other options:

1. User can use the standard “start a PM” with a bot
2. We could ship an option to have “start bot conversation” in the sidebar.

So I am wondering here:

Are we missing a **user setting** for “bot conversation shortcut”: `header|sidebar|none` ?

Is header just really needed on mobile and we keep to sidebar for first iteration of a change here?

Is this a wider problem in Discourse where it is just too hard to start PMs?

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