Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users
Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users
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To the surprise of absolutely nobody. There's no way it was going to be free and have no ads.
Edit: By the way, I don't see many people talking about it but DALL-E 3 was stealthily launched in the new Bing chat update and it's incredibly impressive. By far the best image generation AI in the market right now, and it probably won't be free for long.
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Do you think that the next step is product placement?
"Draw a rabbit wearing a top hat."
Produces picture of rabbit, wearing a top hat, sipping a coke.
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I jave had mixed results. I asked it to generate a user interface and it was absolute gibberish.
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The best, but still pretty bad at understanding some very basic ideas.
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Geez, ads baked into an OS. What a time to be alive.
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The ads have been baked in for a while. Every time I turn on my PC, the first thing I see is it trying to get me to buy Game Pass, and when Starfield came out, it was putting pictures from the game on that startup screen. Even after I tried to turn that off, it still showed them.
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Right? You bought the OS but you still get ads. Even worse, it sends your data to MS servers
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Now is a great time to give Linux a shot. I recommend Pop! OS.
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Does pop os also have a copilot?
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No. However, it also lacks ads.
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You really, really don't need an AI assistant for regular computer usage. It's a solution in search of a problem.
There are genuinely good reasons to use GitHub Copilot if you're a developer, but otherwise, I think they're way more trouble than they're worth.
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No Linux distro has, as M$ hasn't made their AIs open source. But there are people working on open source alternatives.
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Theres paid ai .. like this
https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter
Give commands to chatgpt in the the terminal. Then it executes it. It can generate files, etc as well. Using python iirc.
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No, YOU stay with windows.
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Use Linux.
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Sigh, one more thing for the list ...
"Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
"Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. Oh, and in our operating systems. But not in dreams. No siree!"
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Microsoft: the beatings will continue until morale improves
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Microsoft: We now inject the malware attack vector directly into your OS because it makes us slightly more money.
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Like it wouldn't.
Please, it's 2023. Corporarions have totally embraced the "you are the product" model. They offer you a service on their infrastructure ("the cloud") on their terms, which they can modify and terminate on will. Then they make money by selling your data, showing you ads and using your data to personalize those ads so that you are more likely to click on them.
Shame or ethics? Please, it's money that makes the world go round. Ads in every app! Ads on the web! Ads in every corner of the city! Ads on public transport! More ads! Even more ads! No square centimeter of physical and virtual space left unused!
It's really pathetic.
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Come on over to Linux yall, the
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Truly amazing. Usually you roll out these features, get the userbase involved and intrigued at these new features, get used to them and THEN try and monetize it to capitalize on the sunk cost feeling
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I was finally able to get rid of the ads in Windows. I'm sure that it doesn't block everything, but editing the 'hosts' file helps. At least I don't see any ads in Windows anymore. Here is an simple tutorial that I found on how to do so:
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Too bad half the shit I do on my computer, Macs aren't even capable of.
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lol. What? Unless your personal computer is actually a backend server for heavy infrastructure, then a Mac can probably do it.
Computers are just tools, and a personal computer running MacOS can do more or less the same as one running Windows. One tool might be better optimized than the other, like gaming on Windows, but that's about it.
Now, you might strongly prefer one, or not know how accomplish what you want on the other, but that doesn't mean it can't do it. It just means you don't know how.
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Also Mac has been killing it in the user privacy game.
Okay, I thought you were serious, but now you have to be joking
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I removed copilot the instant I saw it. I don't need any more Microsoft online shit built into my OS, thanks. (I also use Arch, but Windows kernel anti-cheat)
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I keep telling myself im going to give linux a try at some point, and I should probably get familiar with it as soon as possible
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Your instinct is right, because it does take a little bit of time to be familiar enough that it's automatic, but it doesn't need to be a big daunting thing - I first dabbled with Linux running in a virtual box. Then I dual booted for a while. Now I'm running just Linux. Dipping your toe in the water is good
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Here's the knife they slip in with a new "free" feature in Windows...
At least with co-pilot for O365, they are charging (a lot of) money for the feature, presumably without ads.
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I'm sure it'll still spy though.
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No doubt
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acts surprised
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Ok, I won't update anymore my Windows..
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I had a brief look at enabling this but I didn't see the point. Copilot in the office suite or outlook makes sense though.
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3rd party ads lead to the roulette wheel of malware injection. M$ can't even keep the malware links off of their garbage MSN homepage on Edge. This would be an extremely dumb move, and they will do it anyway because it trades off security for money.