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LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

www.theverge.com LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs

Copilot on a TV might just be an AI gimmick.

LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app.

LG is adding an entire AI section to its TVs and rebranding its remote to “AI Remote,” in an effort to sell consumers on the promise of large language models. While it’s not clear exactly how Copilot works on LG’s latest TVs, the company describes access to Copilot as a way to allow users to “efficiently find and organize complex information using contextual cues.”

LG hasn’t demonstrated its Copilot integration just yet, but it has shown off its own AI Chatbot that’s part of its TVs. It appears Copilot will be surfaced when LG TV users want to search for more information on a particular subject.

Samsung also has its own Vision AI brand for its AI-powered TV features this year, which include AI upscaling, Auto HDR Remastering, and Adaptive Sound Pro. There’s also a new AI button on the remote to access AI features like recognizing food on a screen or AI home security features that analyze video feeds from smart cameras.

Microsoft’s Copilot will be part of this Vision AI section. “In collaboration with Microsoft, Samsung announced the new Smart TVs and Smart Monitors featuring Microsoft Copilot,” says Samsung in a press release. “This partnership will enable users to explore a wide range of Copilot services, including personalized content recommendations.”

I asked Samsung for more information or images of Copilot in action, but the company doesn’t have anything more to share right now. I’ve also asked LG and Microsoft for more information about Copilot on TVs and neither company has responded in time for publication. Without any indication of exactly how Copilot works on these TVs, I’m going to chalk this one up as a gimmicky feature that LG, Samsung, and Microsoft clearly aren’t ready to demo yet.

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No one asked for this
Oh my god, fucking stop. Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for this.
The A in AI just stands for Ads.
This is why I never plug my TV into the Internet.
Just imagine how much money Microsoft must be investing in this mass surveillance program they are trying to sneak in under the guise of the AI in charge of its indexing.
In every cyberpunk story, there is always a group of people that reject the new technology and claim it is an affront to humanity. I can safely say, in this dystopian future we live in, I am solidly in that group of people.
Gross.
disable the wifi on any smart tv you own
that's great and all, but all i want is a true-color, bright brights, black blacks panel to hook my media player up to.
Time really is a flat circle huh?
This all just sounds like the Alexa/Google Assistant integration some brands were advertising for their TVs previously, just ends up as the obnoxious button you bump into and desperately try to back out while the aging TV huffs and puffs struggling to load the flashy UI
Miss the days when you could buy a dumb TV and add the tech you wanted.
TL;DR: "We can't say what exactly it does, but we're gonna add it."

If that isn't the best endorsement of their new tech. Personally the only AI function I want is skipping ads and I'm pretty sure that one will not be available.
I literally just want a screen to watch blu-ray's
I got a 2024 LG OLED TV. It has "AI" but idk what it does exactly. During the setup process there was a step that had a shitty still image of a baby with some crappy music playing. There were two toggle switches to enable AI picture and sound. It was so cheesy. I can't make this shit up. When you turned on picture AI the baby image became HD and a video instead of a still image. I was like "Oh my God, wow! Look at the AI! I wonder what the AI sound is??" So we turn it on and the sound gets high def and adds more instruments in.

In case it isn't clear, none of this was actually AI or enabling actual features on the TV, just some weird required step in the process of setup. It wasn't an AI animated video or sound, just a different video of the baby and a different audio track.
JUST… WIPE YOUR TVS AND PLUG YOUR COMPUTER IN!

JUST… USE IT AS A BIG EXTERNAL MONITOR!
🖕
Copilot can fuck off
LG and Samsung TVs were already on my "do-not-buy" list with their ad ridden UIs, sounds like they're just getting worse. Only a matter of time before they require you to connect them to the Internet to use them
As far as I know, all smart TVs are user-hostile in the sense that they will be used against you if you connect them to the internet.

The least bad is Sony. Buy it, keep it offline forever, and enjoy good-quality video. Avoid all the other trash companies as if your privacy depended on it.
Ugh. I just want a dumb TV. I want a nice hi res screen and that's it. Seems everyone else wants big TV at low cost and that's why we get this shite.
Who analyzes vast amounts of data on their TV?
I really wish it was easier to open up a TV, rip out all the compute and replace it with a custom display driver. Someone could unironically make a decent amount of money selling diy TV stupidification kits
Bro is a fucking TV. Literally no one NEEDS AI on their TV. It may be a useful feature but will someone ever use it? I doubt so. This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV adding a feature that doesn't even need to be on a TV.
When I first bought my LG TV, the homescreen was great. The cursor-thing with the remote was annoying, but it didn’t really have ads, it had every app I needed, etc.

But it kept updating and then demanding I give it more permissions. Kept getting worse and worse as time went on. So recently I said fuck it, bought an Apple TV, and did a factory reset on the TV. The TV is just a TV now, it has no WiFi access so it doesn’t ever bother me. And the Apple TV is better than the LG OS ever was. Also I can bring the Apple TV to hotels (if they have accessible HDMI ports) which is pretty neat.
LG and Samsung are bigger idiots than I gave them credit for being.
I just bought a new LG TV with QNED screen. It will NEVER be connected to the Internet, or any network. The 'smart' part might as well not exist on the TV.
Adding artificial unintelligence to a """"smart"""" device is a move that I expected from a corpo shit
I'll never buy from them again. #fuckai
Yo dawg I put spies in your spies
Buy those if you want to have dead buttons on your remote in two years.
Meanwhile I am using local models through home assistant. The fact I can run something equivalent to GPT 3.5 turbo on a $800 graphics card kind of negates any of the benefits of these dumb integrations that require NPUs. Maybe Microsoft should bring back basic quality of life improvements that were in Windows 10 in Windows 11 instead of desperately waving their arms around trying to be relevant to consumers. Dumbasses.
I rooted my LG C1 and blocked system updates. I use a homebrew channel to download external packages.

Good luck pushing this crapware on me.
What the fuck is the point of putting "AI" into a fucking TV, other than to have something else to spy on you?
I’ll cry if they go after monitors like they did tvs.
And here I was thinking I should upgrade to a nice big OLED and get a PS5 when GTA VI comes out, as it'll undoubtedly be another console exclusive. Of course, LG was at the forefront of consideration, they do make nice OLED panels and mostly everyone else using OLED also uses their panels.

Now they're out of consideration too, along with Samsung (which I currently own)
Well, I wasn't going to buy their spyware shit anyway.
I should have bought a new tv like 5 years ago.
Big Brother doesn’t like it when you turn the telescreen off for more than thirty minutes…
"Finally!!!"

- what MS, LG, Samsung think their buyers be like
Too bad, mine doesn't get any internet.
Hmm, I can't find "Friends" episodes for free Frank, but I've reviewed all your music and most of it is illegally downloaded. I've alerted the RIAA for proper auction against you. Oh by the way, I know about Monica but haven't yet told your wife about it. We'll let this one pass but the notes about chemicals and your obsession for MAGA hats, that peaked the interest of a few folks who asked for access to your camera and microphone. Say cheese! Hold on, we need more light... Could you open the window, look at it for a sec for the profile. No, its just pixels, the red dots on your face is just hot pixels, don't worry.
i cant wait to pay extra so i can get the nostalgia cash grab "tv classic"
The only "smart" feature I want in my TV is a slot to insert a CM5 so I can run my own software.
Thank god i only have this old Toshiba TV,And if LG and Samsung made it opt out then am fine with that.
Maybe I should just mount a giant computer monitor to my wall instead, ironically those are much “dumber” than your typical TV
I guess I'll be avoiding those models when I'm next in the market for a TV, or work out how to disable it/block it at my router if I am forced to connect the TV to the Internet for firmware updates, etc.

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