Or just make settings that aren't total dumb bullshit for which you need Ai to find anything.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Couldn’t make a proper settings menu and AI is dumb as rocks….. - + - = - -? Shoot control panel is better than this combo.
MS never finished porting Control Panel, now they think AI will help?
We can only hope that the windows de-bloating tools are updated so we can disable or remove this feature.
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.
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This is the TYPICAL AI use case :
- have situation that's not perfect, but works fine and is understandable (old control panel and some hidden settings)
- improve on the old control panel, create subsections that makes sense, make it searchable, everyone is happy
- someone decides that "control panel" and "old looking UI" have to go, create a cluster-a-doodle-fuck of a garbage mess labeled "Settings", put only half the old settings in there, and half the time conflicts with other well-established ways to do things
- keep pushing the new thing despite it being so horrendous a kitten litter dies every time it is used
- pretend "there is a problem with settings, but we can solve it with AI"
- ???
- nothing, whatever, definitely not profit
It seems that people keep forgetting we just, did stuff. Changing most system settings wasn't an incomprehensible chore reserved to the most elite of people. And changing the fringe ultra rare and hard to find setting only happened with half-decent competent people. No need to throw AI at that… unless you dismantle everything that works before, of course.
I swear, it's not long ago that people were touting that we could finally have decent microtransactions in games thanks to blockchain, despite microtransactions being a very lucrative thing for decades before. And don't get me started on people saying "but it's the only way artists can get paid".
As a collective, humanity is dumb.
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Oh no you don't
[deletes wuaueng.dll because windows update has turned itself back on like 5 times]
I remember when MS made the perfect control panel in Win 2k and XP then spent the next 20 years making it worse and worse just because.
And here we are.
I'll tell my AI agent to go into the registry and disable itself.
Sorry, Dave, I can't do that.
Glad to be using Linux on all my computers
Surely there would be no way scammers or hackers would take advantage of this with some crafty prompts that somehow get feed into the agent...
Easy way to automatically set settings that are convenient for them and disguise it as AI being AI
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Microsoft would absolutely love it if people had zero computer literacy and had to ask an AI for help to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.
Because then the AI becomes indispensable.
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