Are AI features enabled in EmEditor?

EmEditor does not come with AI features by default. Whether you use the installer or the portable version, no AI features are active by default. Therefore, no data is sent to AI services by default.

The only method to enable AI features in EmEditor is to install the ChatAI plug-in. If you do not install ChatAI, AI features are not available. Even with ChatAI installed, no data is sent to AI services if you never use the AI features. The following is a complete list of AI features in EmEditor that are enabled after ChatAI is installed.

• AI Assisted Writing
• Chat with AI
• AI toolbar
• AI macros (AI.jsee)

When you use any of these AI features, AI requests are sent to the AI service directly. Our servers do not receive any of the requests.

Disabling AI features

After ChatAI is installed, you can disable AI features by uninstalling ChatAI. If you have the portable version of EmEditor, you can remove ChatAI by deleting ChatAI.dll.

Alternatively, you can also disable all EmEditor’s AI features system-wide and prevent AI features from being enabled even if ChatAI is installed. To do this:

1. Go to Tools -> Customize -> select the AI Options page
2. Click on the Disable AI (per computer) button

To set this option using the Windows Registry, in the key

HKLM\Software\EmSoft\EmEditor v3\Common

Set the value DisableAIAdmin to REG_DWORD of 1 to disable all AI features.

From v26.2, EmEditor will also check the following registry key:

HKLM\Software\Policies\Emurasoft\EmEditor

Value: DisableAIAdmin to REG_DWORD of 1