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Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files.
Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.
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Today I had to disable Copilot in Notepad.
Notepad.
The shitty word editor that you use to jot down your shitty writing before copypasting it into somewhere else to put actual work into it.
You’re telling me I can’t change the shitty line-spacing in shitty Notepad, but I can get a top-of-the-line corporate LLM to help me with my purposely shitty writing?
#keepnotepadshitty
I love notepad for deleting all formatting so word doesn’t take a massive shit when I paste things into it from other documents.
PowerToys -> Ctr alt v
And a ton of other utilsDoes pasting without formatting have the same effect or is it still slightly off?
Same effect
Wipe Windows, Install Linux ;D That was my last straw as well.
Hell yeah. I run LMDE6 on my gaming PC. Runs fucking fantastic, even plays games faster via Proton than it did on Windows natively.
You know it’s funny that Microsoft took this feature from Apple from macOS. But here’s the thing right? This shit requires a super computer npu to run and meanwhile my 2012 MacBook Pro with a core i5 3rd gen running opencore legacy patcher can just do this stuff in the exact same way. For the features one would actually wanna use this for.
Yeah I’m glad i chose Mint instead of Win11
Damn I thought it was going to be at least useful like a text prompt.
“Search all these files dumped and find me the ones from my old pc, move them all to the same location on the biggest spare partition that isn’t the os one, and then organize them into folders by general idea without breaking up the coherency of the directories. And do it without losing the existing modified or created dates. Retain the original organization in an xml doc that you can read, just in case I don’t like the organization and want to try again.”
Or
“Install all libre stuff and all of the most useful windows tools. Delete, disable, tear out, and block all telemetry from this Windows installation. There must be privacy and zero enshittification on this computer. Go through, file by file, including all hidden and file systems and services, reading through each and every binary, and decompile, rip out any spyware or telemetry, and recompile. You have a week and this system will be disconnected from the internet entirely for the duration. Go.”
This is the type of ai that would actually be useful to me. Imagine the power of being able to fully delegate lower level tasks like this.
“all your files are now on onedrive.”
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
What i would like an ai to do:
"Go through this mega dump of ROM files, if there are any that are (g) (j) (f) (s), delete them. If there are multiples, find the ! and delete all other copies.
What they attempt to give me: “we fucked up notepad with clippy mk II!”
I feel like AI never has useful features like that, just weird little gimmicks.
I’m sure it would be possible to develop an actual AI assistant like that, FOSS of course.
With current AI I doubt it, at best it would do it 90% and then completely screw up the rest of your files.
not with LLMs, definitely
That’s why I said AI, not LLM
for example? Because your statement is similar to asking a chef what’s on the menu and them replying with “food”
Yeah, I’m using AI to create some simple python programs to do some work on my files. For example a popular music download site is giving you a “Artist - Album.zip” and Jellyfin likes it to be organized into Artist/Album and I created a simple python script that unzips everything into the correct structure. Or a simple script that searches multiple folders for the biggest files / duplicate files.
Yes, I know that I can do this with obscure bash and terminal black magic, but I’m familiar with python and it’s a great way to handle stuff. This is something that AI can do and where AI is actually helpful. Of course I could program those scripts myself, but it really is faster.
Current vision models are also awesome, esp. in combination with other technology. There is no reason that the Windows Explorer can’t find all pictures of your dog or every picture you took in London last September or every picture of a hamburger you took.
Features like that would also be awesome in a file explorer. But we are getting crap.
I think the prompts that ask to remove telemetry (or to be exact, stuff that try to modify system files) will just give you error. Similar to some current AI models that would just not run when it found some “prohibited” words in prompt.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
For the sake of argument, how do you expect something like that to be made for a dollar?
In China, and poorly? I dunno. You’ve never seen Robocop?
I haven’t seen Robocop yet… I need to. Saw some clips last night. Looks like fun.
It’s great. Don’t bother with the sequels, though.
But I enjoy terrible sequels…
In all seriousness, half the reason I want to watch Robocop is because of the “futuristic” Ford Taurus. I had a 1992 Taurus (second gen) for a couple years and simultaneously loved and hated that car.
Someday… 🥹
They’re better make it so the context menu doesn’t take 2s to fully load while moving the bottom rows around first.
Bitch, every valid action for a file is in the diving registry, sorted by file type. Why do you need to think about this?
Was arranging a completely unrelated service with a client today and apropos of absolutely nothing he went full jaw-foamingly off his tits about how shite win11 was.
possible issues:
- blurred a part of the photo that shouldn’t be blurred, data loss
- erased the wrong object, data loss
- deleted large chunks of content in my docs/ppts/spreadsheets I wanted to keep, data loss
This is a really bad idea
letting AI do whatever it wants to your files is not very good…
But if you stick all of your files into OneDrive and turn on version history you can keep trying… /s
I love how even this flagship feature is just one more lazy shortcut to another app that bloats the context menu 😅
Context menu bloat was solved in W11 by hiding all those actions you do use behind a “more…” button 🤦♂️ TIHI
This is a whole new level of data mining, which is why they want it. Now they will scan everything that’s open.
they want to justify the cost of using AI, which they admit to not generating any profit, they are trying to sell off as much data as they can, so they can offsett the cost of power/water intensive AI.
man I’m so glad I’ll never use windows again.
I’m so glad I’ve been moving away from windows recently
Same. I finally dumped Windows 10 on my gaming PC for LMDE6 a few months ago, and I already see massive benefits. It runs games faster, I can do anything I want with it, including multiple simultaneous user sessions, and can even admin the thing entirely from my phone via Cockpit or plain ol’ SSH (VPN/local network only, of course).
Worst part is people will keep using this garbage. The brain rot is so real.
People will always gravitate towards tools that make their lives easier. That’s never gong to change, and is a driving force behind why we have the technology we do now.
That said, this AI shit is clearly not ready for primetime. I do not trust it to have access to my files. Machine learning and LLMs have their place - my phone’s keyboard (FUTO Keyboard) runs a local LLM model that learns my swiping/typing habits and trains the predictive text feature on that data - but that’s a very specialized application, and I have control over it.
I’m not really talking about LLMs or ML in general. I’m talking about capitalism and enshitification.
I use LLMs every day from the comfort of my Linux systems.
Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.
Only one of those things could be called AI.
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Sounds great but AI so Lemmings will hate it.
And you’d be correct. I don’t need or want any of that crap on my personal machine.
You don’t want to be able to easily edit photos on your personal machine?
You don’t want to be able to do a reverse image search right from explorer?
And you’re against people having the option to do these things……why?
You don’t want to be able to easily edit photos on your personal machine?
That’s called MS Paint. It already exists.
You don’t want to be able to do a reverse image search right from explorer?
No! Why would I want more shit calling back to the mothership about my files on my personal computer?
And you’re against people having the option to do these things……why?
When did I ever say that?
MS Paint doesn’t give you advanced features like background blurring/removal and object removal.
Why would I want more shit calling back to the mothership
They’re not “calling back to the mothership”. Why do you think they are?
When did I ever say that?
By being against them adding these features.
MS Paint doesn’t give you advanced features like background blurring/removal and object removal.
Nor should it. It’s fucking MS PAINT, not Photoshop. If you want advanced features, use something more advanced. Adding shit to MS Paint when it’s gone virtually unchanged for decades without complaint is unnecessary feature creep.
They’re not “calling back to the mothership”. Why do you think they are?
LMAO
By being against them adding these features.
You understand the terms “opt-in” and “opt-out”, yes?
MS paint isn’t getting these features - the photos app is.
Also that’s a horrible reason to never improve programs lol.
LMAO
Oh you’ve got these features and can show us the logs of background blur calling back to MS?! Awesome, how’d you get them early? Uncle work for Microsoft?
You didn’t say you want them to be opt-in or opt-out, you said you don’t want them on your computer.
Pretty sure it’s opt in? So… don’t use it?
I’m pretty sure it is or at least will be at some point
So lemmings = people who want to maintain full control of their PC rather than relinquishing various tasks to a fancy auto-complete?
What control are these features relinquishing?
