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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can’t wait to see all the exciting ways this fucks up people’s computers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"To err is human, but it takes a computer to really fuck things up"

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

They really are trying hard for people to switch to Linux huh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Blackmagic please, for the benefit of all editors, make DaVinci Resolve work properly on Linux. I'd switch tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Works fine on bazzite for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What's wrong with it? Works fine for me. Ubuntu 24.04

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[–] [email protected] 222 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Seems like it would have been cheaper, easier, and better pr to just simplify settings or have them in more logical categories, but what would I know.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

First time using Microsoft products, is it?

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 week ago (9 children)

If a problem exists, and you try to fix it without AI, do you even stand a chance at getting promoted?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

It's rather apparent that you composed this comment without AI. Guess I'll have to give that pay raise to myself again...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We can only hope that the windows de-bloating tools are updated so we can disable or remove this feature.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The amounts of copium that Windows users are willing to swallow to avoid changing are reaching stratospheric levels. Inertia is one hell of a drug.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

easy, just get a debloating AI agent, what could go wrong

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Group Policy is your friend. Just navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot and double-click on the Turn off Windows Copilot policy. Select "Enabled" to turn it off, then apply and OK.