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Microsoft Paint Gets a Copilot Button For Gen AI Features (pcworld.com) 26

Posted by BeauHD from the watch-out-Photoshop dept.
A new update is being rolled out to Windows 11 insiders (Build 26120.3073) that introduces a Copilot button in Microsoft Paint. PCWorld reports: Clicking the Copilot button will expand a drop-down menu with all the generative AI features: Cocreator and Image Creator (AI art based on what you've drawn or text prompts), Generative Erase (AI removal of unwanted stuff from images), and Remove Background. Note that these generative AI features have been in Microsoft Paint for some time, but this quick-access Copilot button is a nice time-saver and productivity booster if you use them a lot.
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  • After so many years (decades??) I finally have a reason to use ms paint...or do I?

    • No

      • Probably an AI generated answer

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward

          The AI is going to paint everything black, including Vikings and Chinese emperors.

        • Have you ever seen an AI result that is concise and to the point? Or even one with fewer that 100 words saying a similar thing in 10 different ways?

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Rei ( 128717 )

        The problem is that the AI automatically tags "in the style of MS Paint" to all your prompts ;)

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      MS-Paint is still the best "free" tool to edit at the pixel level and do pixel-centric editing, at least without a long learning curve. Some transformations are easier that way.

      But I do wish Paint would add contrast, hue, brightness, and blur & sharpen controls. Tabs would also be nice so we can compare versions.

      • GIMP: What am I, garbage to you?

        (I do agree that GIMP has a large learning curve. I can't image Krita and other open source programs are so difficult that they are out of the reach of casual users.)

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by chefren ( 17219 )

        Paint.NET is pretty good

  • The next version of Windows will just be one big Copilot button. Windows: Copilot all the way down.

  • ... is an "anti-bloat" button that removes all the dreck from a Windows install in one operation. Don't need news. Don't need weather. Don't need maps. Don't need voice recognition. Don't need AI. Don't need sports. Don't need Solitaire.

    I go through the routine of uninstalling as much of this as I can every time I build a VM to test something in Windows (just Windows 10, never tried Windows 11).

    Please oh please...

    • Re:What I would REALLY like to have ... (Score:4, Informative)

      by vux984 ( 928602 ) on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:28PM (#65139525)

      Something like?

      https://github.com/Raphire/Win... [github.com]

      Everyone's idea what is bloat and what isn't is a little different, and there are a million spins on the idea. Some far more drastic than others... the one above is a fairly light touch, there are plenty of others if you want to look around. (The above works for w10 and w11)

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by CEC-P ( 10248912 )
      Got you, bro. This one guys it in the manifest for all users, even ones that haven't been created yet so they can't reinstall. This is oriented towards 23h2 and doesn't remove OneDrive or Teams since we use those.
      Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like "*DolbyLaboratories.DolbyAccess*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –Online -AllUsers
      Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like "*Microsoft.BingNews*"} | remove-appx

  • What next? AI to configure Active Directory.

    AI to help with the CMD prompt?

    AI in Windows Explorer?

  • I was trying to move some pictures around on my Ryzen 9 3.8ghz 12-core, 32gb 3600mhz memory, NVME storage, and it's freaking SLOW. Waiting seconds for the folders to refresh after a few images are moved around, and browsing around in general always seems to have noticeable delays. It feels so much trashier these days than the early Win10 explorer experience. It's just insulting that they aren't working on improving the real experience while happily being laser focused on introducing worthless AI slop in eve

    • I was trying to move some pictures around on my Ryzen 9 3.8ghz 12-core, 32gb 3600mhz memory, NVME storage, and it's freaking SLOW. Waiting seconds for the folders to refresh after a few images are moved around, and browsing around in general always seems to have noticeable delays. It feels so much trashier these days than the early Win10 explorer experience. It's just insulting that they aren't working on improving the real experience while happily being laser focused on introducing worthless AI slop in every app.

      When doing local-only tasks, turn off the network. Seriously. I have a Windows 11 PRO For Workstations install for my music production, and it's unusable when running my main DAW system with the network on. This is a Ryzen 7, 64 GB, NVME storage system. Turn the network off, and suddenly the system is super snappy. Microsoft has prioritized the data-grab routines, but they end up giving up when the network is completely inaccessible.

  • At first glance I wondered what Paint would do with "General" AI. But actually, all it can do is generate images from prompts. So not really any more interesting than ChatGPT has been doing for quite a while now.

    • Question for you - as I do not have Win 11 or the latest Paint.

      Does the MS Paint AI image generation run natively on your own system, or is Paint just a front end to send the request to the web or MS servers?

      Thanks.

      • Microsoft says this:

        We acknowledge the safety risks of AI generated images and hence follow the unique hybrid approach of running the necessary safety systems on cloud using Azure online services to help ensure the safe and ethical use of AI, while the image generation happens on the device.

        https://support.microsoft.com/... [microsoft.com].

        So, you can't use it without an internet connection, but it does run on the device.

      • Question for you - as I do not have Win 11 or the latest Paint.

        Does the MS Paint AI image generation run natively on your own system, or is Paint just a front end to send the request to the web or MS servers?

        Thanks.

        You have to log in to your Microsoft account to use it. They may claim it's running locally, but it's definitely contacting the mothership in some capacity.

  • Do not want!

  • Get to the part where Windows boots into one single screen sized copilot button and all interactions are done through that please. /s

  • I've read that MS image creator is the tool of choice for the AI 'say amen' to Shrimp Jesus / Sexy Flight attendant / Developing country homemade toy industry on FB. https://www.404media.co/facebo... [404media.co]

    Which is interesting given that there are SO MANY image LLM and pipeline tools out right now. Weird that MS has the cheapest / fastest way to do this still.

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