General AI Crap

But wait, there's MORE - MUCH MUCH MORE! - Now there's unwanted AI intrusion into your living room as well... ;)

Microsoft and LG are forcing Copilot onto smart TVs — and you can't even delete it - Windows Central​

LG TV owners are discovering an unremovable Copilot app installed on their webOS home screens.

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LG TV owners may see a new app on their home screen the next time they sit down to watch something. According to several users, the Microsoft Copilot app is being installed onto LG TVs automatically. Worse yet, the app seemingly cannot be removed.

"My LG TV’s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted," said user defjam16 in a Reddit post.

The same post also highlights a "Live Plus" feature that appears on LG TVs that can detect what's on your screen to better promote ads and content. The setting's description states:

"By turning Live Plus on, you understand that the content displayed on your TV can be recognized, and the viewing information may be used to provide you with an enhanced viewing experience and personalised services including content recommendations and advertisements."

According to defjam16, Live Plus was also enabled by default.

I do not have an LG TV, so I have not been able to test if Copilot is being installed without consent. Even if the app's installation is approved, possibly through a lengthy terms of service agreement, the fact that Copilot cannot be deleted is concerning.

Microsoft currently struggles to convince people to use its AI products. The company's AI CEO shared tone-deaf comments about people's lack of interest in AI last month. Microsoft has also faced backlash over its plans to make Windows in an agentic OS.

Despite Microsoft having invested billions into AI-related technologies, the company's advantage has seemingly evaporated. TIME's "Person of the Year" highlighted a group referred to as "The Architects of AI." Notably, Microsoft is absent from the cover.

Microsoft has received criticism for integrating Copilot into everything from Notepad to Outlook. Now, the tech giant will hear complaints about forcing Copilot onto TVs.
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A popular Chrome extension marketed as a privacy-focused VPN has been exposed for intercepting private AI conversations from millions of users.

According to security researchers at Koi, Urban VPN Proxy secretly collected chats from platforms including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude beginning in July 2025.

The extension injected scripts that captured prompts, AI responses, timestamps, and session metadata, which were then transmitted to Urban VPN servers for marketing analytics.

The data collection was enabled by default, could not be disabled, and continued even when the VPN was turned off.

Seven related extensions contained the same code, affecting more than eight million users.

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No One Is Prepared for the AI Future. Especially Our Kids. - Dad Saves America​

AI-generated video has all but left the uncanny valley and become indistinguishable from reality. Photorealistic faces, perfect lip-syncing, believable dialogue—but this isn’t just about deepfakes or future social media hoaxes.

As AI evolves at breakneck speed, it threatens to upend white-collar jobs, especially the computer programming jobs blue-collar workers were flippantly told to pursue after losing their own to automation.

At the same time, ChatGPT-written essays are leaving teachers at a loss for how to educate effectively with the technology now available to students.

Many of us are wondering what role—if any—will be left for actual humans? Will we be able to keep our creative spark and sense of purpose or will our society degrade into a real-life “Brave New World”?
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Microsoft Teams is experiencing issues, with thousands reporting problems sending messages, including delays
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Cloudflare blocked over 416 billion AI bot requests since July 2025, says CEO Matthew Prince. These crawlers from Google, OpenAI, and others scrape sites for AI training without paying.
 
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Level-5 CEO Says the Idea that "Using AI Is Evil" Could Seriously Hinder The Progression of Modern Tech

Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has weighed in with his thoughts on GenAI in game development, says it is a tech that "can't be dismissed."
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If we let the impression take hold here that 'using AI is evil,' it could seriously hinder the advancement of modern digital technology. I hope creators and audiences alike can recognize 'AI' as a tool that people use to make their works. Here's to hoping that various technological innovations lead to even greater growth in the game industry," Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino said
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes it’s time to move past the AI “slop versus sophistication” debate, instead pushing for a future where AI agents become second nature, driving business operations and adapting to consumer buying behavior before customers themselves do.

In a year-end blog post, Nadella said the AI industry is no longer in its novelty phase and is now confronting a tougher test: showing that the technology delivers real-world results.
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How about NO?
 

"Microslop" trends on social media — backlash to Microsoft's on-going AI obsession continues - Windows Central​

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.

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The Streisand effect continues to be real, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's AI comments go viral.

A couple of days ago, Nadella penned a short note on his hopes for artificial intelligence going into 2026. As you know, Microsoft is very much "all in" on AI, with Azure providing a significant chunk of the backbone for OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Microsoft has been baking its ChatGPT-powered Copilot app into virtually every product it has, whether you like it or not. The brute force by which Microsoft is introducing these products has led to an unrelenting backlash on social media, and Nadella's latest comments reignited the commentary in a big way.

In the piece, Nadella said that he hoped society would "move on" from questions of "slop" for AI — emphasizing that for the technology to gain acceptance, it needs to move beyond spectacle.

Indeed, the vast majority of AI usage in the mainstream consciousness right now revolves around misinformation, dumb memes, and at worse, illegal abuse. xAI's Grok is currently being investigated by various authorities for allowing sexualized AI images of children, and OpenAI's ChatGPT is being sued for potentially causing a dreadful murder-suicide.

But hey, at least we can generate cat memes more quickly than we could previously.
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