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Microsoft's Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors (theverge.com) 69

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to TVs, starting with Samsung's 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. With the integration, you can call upon Copilot and ask for movie suggestions, spoiler-free episode recaps, and other general questions.

On TV, Copilot takes on a "friendly, animated presence" that resembles the opalescent Copilot Appearance Microsoft showed off last month, though in a color that makes it look more like a personified chickpea. The beige blob will float and bounce around your screen, while its mouth moves in line with its responses.
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  • I definitely don't want this.

    I guess it's easier than good plots though.

    • Commenting on your subject... I used to roll my eyes at local TV stations boasting that they now had the "News in High Def". Seriously, who cares, it's the fucking News.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dfghjk ( 711126 )

        Come on, you haven't watched real news in decades.

      • I agree, especially with news. I don't want to see that there's a stray hair or thread on the newscaster. I don't need to know how many freckles the weather lady has--i want the weather and news from a put together looking human (no, not AI-Humans, I mean the kind that can visit children in the hospital and a bird can poop in their hair if they are outside) I know there's bad hair and maybe some wrinkles, but I don't need to see them or count them...

      • I want to count every pore in the newscaster's face.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      You are quite discriminating. NTSC ought to be enough for anybody, right Bill?

    • My back appreciates modern television sets

      My old ass eyes sure appreciate not having 480i today.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I'd use it if it was useful.

      Me: "Hey copilot, give me a show without fags in it."

      Copilot: "Sorry, all recent tv series and movies are littered with faggots."

      Me: turns off the TV.

  • I'm Back! Clippy in HD (Score:4, Funny)

    by oldgraybeard ( 2939809 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:43PM (#65622840)
    "On TV, Copilot takes on a "friendly, animated presence" that resembles the opalescent Copilot Appearance"
  • I realize that 'generative' is all the rage; but did nobody at Redmond HQ have the nerve to speak up and say "perhaps less like a blob of semen..." before that design went out?

  • Enshittification continues (Score:3)

    by Rainwulf ( 865585 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:48PM (#65622858)

    Samsung gear is already absolute garbage, ridden with "smart" features, requiring internet connectivity, so an AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Sure "absolute garbage", you sound like an expert. And "ridden" with smart features, you're highly literate too.

      "AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv."

      No one wants an AI assistant, but if they did a TV would likely be the first place they'd want it. No one appears to want a PC in the home anymore.

      • "AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv." ... No one appears to want a PC in the home anymore.

        Quote please?

        The last thing I want in a "Smart TV" and in particular Samsung - which snoops on me [newscientist.com]. But I need to admin I have a Samsung Smart TV, because:
        1. You cannot but non-smart TVs - they're all garbage quality
        2. Samsung does great displays

        I don't need cable, I want to watch whatever I want, whenever I want. And it's such a great display for a media server [xda-developers.com].

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I have a Samsung TV and wouldn't know. I kept my TV offline and have a great experience. I see no reason to connect it. If I want media I use my Linux HTPC or a game console.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Jeremi ( 14640 )

      so an AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv.

      What everyone wants is a user interface that just does what the user wants, without forcing the user to figure out which remote-button or unrecognizably-abstract onscreen icon to push to make it happen.

      If Samsung's AI can implement that, e.g. by listening to free-form English commands and reliably acting on them in a useful manner (a big if, but not inconceivable), it will be popular.

    • I wouldnt say garbage, its by any reasonable definition a high quality TV. But you are right about the "smart" features. I just got a 65" Samsung to replace my dying 50" 15yo panasonic "dumb" tv, and dear lord does the cruft drive me mad.

      I just want a f***king TV set. I dont NEED free bundled SkyTV, that shit is for pubs to replay the horse races and angry mouth foamers. I dont want. an entire button menu dedicated to exercise. I dont want smart home integration, I like having a dumb home. I just want to wa

    • Samsung gear is already absolute garbage, ridden with "smart" features, requiring internet connectivity, so an AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv.

      Having just bought a Samsung TV, what are you talking about? I bought it, hung it, never connected to the network, and the "smartest" feature the TV seems to have without a network connection is that it tries to guess which input is live until it finds one active. Just because a product says it needs a network connection doesn't mean it actually does. You don't have to obey the product. It's a choice you make at purchase and setup.

  • Fine... (Score:3)

    by Tomahawk ( 1343 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:51PM (#65622866) Homepage

    So long as it can be easily disabled.

    • No chance.

      You have to remember that Microsoft are paying Samsung to put this on their TVs (or else the TV costs like $1 more, which means it's more expensive than the competition, so Samsung won't sell very many).

      As a result:
      * Microsoft think Clippy2 is amazing, so they don't want you disabling it - why would they even spend the time making such a feature? It's such a good thing for you, no one would want to disable it (or so they think)
      * Samsung are getting paid for having it there. They won't get paid muc

  • Gaming monitor sales increase? (Score:3)

    by ukoda ( 537183 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:51PM (#65622868) Homepage
    I find dumb gaming monitors make the best TVs now that actual TV come pre-enshitified. Just give me a HDMI input with no motion processor or other crap to ruin the image I give it.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Given that the largest gaming monitors are smaller than the smallest interesting TVs, "I find dumb gaming monitors make the" worst TVs.

      • Bullshit. [techradar.com] Do they not have Google on your planet?

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by ukoda ( 537183 )
        Weird, not sure what back water country you live in but here in New Zealand I use a 55" Philips monitor (558M1RY/75 55" 4K / 120Hz Gaming Monitor, HDR1000, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro) I brought 4 years ago. There are bigger one, but 55" was the best fit for what I needed. Being dumb it has been free of an OS and Internet connection so it has suffered from none of the enshitification upgrades that other media devices of that age have suffered.

        • I have a 4K 75" tv for one of my monitors. If the prices come back down, i'll move it to another room and upgrade to a larger model.

  • Can we change it to a paperclip?!

  • Which leads to the obvious question (Score:4, Interesting)

    by sconeu ( 64226 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:06PM (#65622892) Homepage Journal

    Can it be disabled? And if so, how easily?

    • Don't connect your TV to the internet by logging it into your wifi.

      • Re:Which leads to the obvious question (Score:4, Insightful)

        by Jeremi ( 14640 ) on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:07AM (#65623394) Homepage

        Don't connect your TV to the internet by logging it into your wifi.

        Easier said than done, if most of your content is being streamed over the Internet.

        • Re:Which leads to the obvious question (Score:4)

          by nightflameauto ( 6607976 ) on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:01AM (#65624016)

          Don't connect your TV to the internet by logging it into your wifi.

          Easier said than done, if most of your content is being streamed over the Internet.

          Streaming box separate from the TV. I have two "smart" TVs that have never touched my network and never will. They work perfectly fine as monitors for my actual streaming box and my computers. Yes, it cost a little more to get a separate box, but those separate boxes are easy to toss and replace when they decide to enshitify themselves while not having to move some giant screen every time the company pushes an update that forces bullshit on you.

        • Actually, just hook your HT-box to it. Fanless thin clients are amazing these days. You can temporarily jack in a fire/Roku for internet streaming if you want, but the TV's interface is identified and given an IP address that the rest of the network ignores or denies outright. Set the power-up on the TV to "last used input" and that's really all the config you need. It does flash the power/standby led in protest to confirm it has no connection. I put a trinket in front of that though. The TV never get

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by antdude ( 79039 )

        Eventually, TVs will come with cellular OTA. :P

  • You'll grow to love him, trust me.

  • Remember clippy? He didn't want to mine your data. He didn't want to optimize advertising to be able to better exploit your personality flaws. He just wanted to get you to do the task better. He was bad at it, but his intention was good.

    Microsoft went from that, to this.

  • Oh (Score:5, Informative)

    by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:59PM (#65623012)

    Fuck no. I would go without a large screen rather than use anything with AI bullshit baked in. This is why pirating is making a comeback. People simply want to avoid all this tech bro spyware bullshit. Torrent ... NAS ... KODI ... HTPC ... big screen monitor (not TV). For the win.

  • Never buy a Samsung tv.

  • But lets be real, copilot is not -in- the TV. Its in the cloud.

  • ... you insenitive clod!"

    is what I feel like telling any TV manufacturer that expects me to connect my TV to the outside world.

    An over-the-air antenna and a connection to my non-internet-connected media server are all I need.

  • Is the best way to get a dumb TV to buy a monitor? Connect it up to whatever hardware you desire without having to worry about what some idiot thinks all consumers need.

    Have I missed something?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Misagon ( 1135 )

      There are modern TV screens for digital signage and conference rooms that come without crap, but they also come without any receiver and often without speakers, so you'd need to get those separately.

      Except for that they work just like TV:s used to, with remote control, multiple HDMI inputs, etc.

      I've worked in the AV industry where we installed these all the time.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Bongo ( 13261 )

        Sounds perfect. There's so many options now that I'd prefer to choose how to get what I want without fighting the multiple bundles of overlapping options.

  • I don't need or want a "smart TV". Instead, I have a PC connected to my TV and watch things from my TV.
    I haven't watched OTA in over 40 years. It's pure garbage.

  • Whether you want it or not, and it won't be uninstallable.

  • If they bring back Clippy to do a little dance while it answers all your question

  • printf "* Samsung TV\n" >> brands_to_avoid.txt

  • Note to self: Don't buy a Samsung TV or monitor.

  • This will be the next hot mess. I can't wait for the flood of privacy and malware reports

  • There already were plenty of reasons to avoid Samsung gear, mostly because of their software. This just makes it more compelling.
  • I will never hookup a TV to the internet. Always control your TV with a Raspberry Pi.
  • I mean, why? AI is hardly needed for recommendations and summaries are already provided by streaming services.
    • What about an AI to recommend porn that works for all your obscure kinks?
      • That's a resolved issue, thank you very much.

        Now, if it could generate fake documents and photos to bypass the verification filters on rapedbyfurries[.]com, they may be on to something. I don't want my actual ID associated with that sort of filth.

  • > On TV, Copilot takes on a "friendly, animated presence" that resembles

    So, this is "your plastic pal that's fun to be with", right?

    Can't wait for the models with Genuine People Personality to come out :-D

  • I don't want Microsoft spyware in my monitor.

  • –someone would market an 65" - 85" monitor, with no OS, no Speakers. Just a screen.

    That's all I want: a display for my AV equipment.

    Wonder if Frameworks would consider expanding into displays?

    • Having crappy speakers you'll never use doesn't cost that much. The HDTV tuner you'll never use adds about $50 to the cost of the "monitor" though. I still prefer buying TVs to monitors.
  • "Big Brother, by Microsoft".

  • Does nobody care about the planet ?

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