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adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 158 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

why

literally give me one reason why this should exist

[–] danglybits27@sh.itjust.works 156 points 2 weeks ago

To quickly add 200 million unwilling new Copilot users for the next shareholder report since nobody's buying the Microslop? Not that it's a good reason, but that's my guess.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago

Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

As it currently exists on other platforms, Gaming Copilot lets you ask guide-like questions about the game you're currently playing. Microsoft's official site offers an example question like "Can you remind me what materials I need to craft a sword in Minecraft?"

I haven't used consoles for a few generations, but historically, switching between a game and a Web browser on a console wasn't all that great, and text entry wasn't all that great. I dunno if things have improved, but it was definitely a pain in the neck to refer to a website in-game historically.

On Linux, Wayland, I swap between fullscreen desktops when playing games, and often have a Web browser with information relevant to the game on another desktop. If it helps enable some approximation of a workflow like that for console players, that doesn't sound unreasonable.

There are other objections I'd have, like not really wanting someone logging what my voice sounds like or giving Microsoft even more data on me to profile with via my searches. But it sounds to me like the basic functionality has a point.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 29 points 2 weeks ago

I just use my phone to look stuff up if I'm on my steam deck.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don't have to play them?

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the idea, but you need to pay for the game first so that MS can enjoy it.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Quick poll: did anyone ask for this? Any single person at all?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I had no idea Mr Clean has a choking fetish...

[–] bequirtle@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

AI Georg, who asks for this 10,000 times per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Data miners. Mining minors.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, MS does support Trump

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

You know the one

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 53 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Fucking disgusting, Microslop cannot help themselves, Satya needs to be thrown out of the company at this stage. He's going to run Microsoft into the ground and everything they ever bought. As eventually, people are just going to stop paying and using their stuff with this continued forced push of LLM garbage. It needs to stop. I use Linux as my main operating system, my Xbox Series S is an extra in my home. It will be replaced with a Steam Machine ASAP.

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hey... Not to worry. The goal is for us to be forced to use proprietary, AI ridden malware. Android is locking down, age verification and hardware level scanning laws are coming to every western nation. They would never just outlaw Linux but they could neuter its freedom and autonomy. Privacy ROMs will be banned soon, either explicitly or by being made near impossible to get. Every device, every interaction online, every communication, will be scanned for state approved guidelines.

Thiel, the Heritage Foundation, the Elsons, and a bunch of rich fucks and companies want to control every single part of your life. Mark my words when I tell you, if they get their way in the future, we'll all be slaves (literal slaves, not wage slaves) and neurolinks will be forced in every single person. These people are disgusting and sick

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Microslop has always failed upwards.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Microslop trying to ease the comming AI bubble crash by forcing AI down our throat?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This would make more sense if they didn't idioticly rebrand from cortana, the AI from halo, to copilot

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Which was already the name of a feature on the xbox to have 2 controllers pretending to be one. Is it the same thing as the thing on Windows that keeps trying to force its way down my throat or something different that has the same name so when people complain online about it there will be deliberate confusion about the exact nature of the complaint until frustration causes users to lash out at eachother instead of finding and fixing the problem?

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly what your few remaining fans want.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What does that even mean?

Now I can ask copilot how best to insult someone's mom?

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 26 points 2 weeks ago

A trillion dollars to reinvent cheat codes.

What a world.

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck sakes, I bet I can't turn automatic updates off / can't play installed games without internet access...

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If you need that much handholding, why not just watch a playthrough on YouTube and save yourself the money?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

i no cap do this for puzzles that i don't give a shit about and do not enjoy solving

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[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because the concentration span of every new generation keeps decreasing. If they don't figure out things immediately, they get frustrated and do sth else like scroll TikTok to get the instant dopamine boost.

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[–] glitzer_gadze@feddit.org 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't need this Microslop

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just don't see how this could provide any value. Assuming a new games comes out, there is literally no information to train on but the game itself. You kind of need existing guides for that and if developers have to write them themselves, you might as well add those with a good full text search.

On top of that, the age of guides seems kind of gone. Most games are quite on the nose about everything and tend to present more tutorials than you will ever need.

And lastly, I just don't want to write stuff out on a console and neither do I want to wear some kind of microphone for my single player games.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They likely want to start collecting data. So they need to get something rushed out so that they can build up the pile of data they will need to build out and refine this feature in time for the launch of their next console.

[–] The1TruePower@lemmy.wtf 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Growing old is watching all of your heroes die

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why was Microsoft ever your hero?

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

When you were a kid in the early 2000's, you didnt know about things like bill gates being a pedophile and "microslop", you just knew that on friday night you were going to go over to your friends house and play halo and gears on their xbox. Those were simpler times

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can I tell it to get rid of the ads on my Xbox home screen?

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

No. But you can use it to get misinformation.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Copilot seems like an online feature. As such, I hope it requires a GamePass subscription like all multiplayer games do.

[–] gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago

Good news you can have it for free! Oh and don’t worry, it’ll automatically be included with the next update!

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Phil Spencer probably didn't approved of this and got shitcanned.

[–] B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al 11 points 2 weeks ago

The Xbox dashboard is already a mess so I hope this doesn't make it even more shit. I know it will though.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Current-generation consoles? You know you can't put copilot on switch 2, Microsoft?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

They will train it on user input and have it tell players to "kill this" or "kill that", what could go wrong...

This would be so cool with a shotgun barrel in my mouth and the trigger pulled!!!

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We'll see if Nintendo continues to do the smart thing, while their opponents shoot themselves in the foot, which is nothing

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[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Okay so all 4 Series X consoles sold, including mine. I won't use it, so that leaves 3 possibilities left.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

I never thought I would say this about Cortana, but... gross. Nobody wants this, Microslop!

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