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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
submitted 2 days ago by zaxvenz@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The biggest frustration is not me changing settings.

The biggest frustration is windows changing back those settings whenever it feels like it.

This is just doubling down on the "greatest frustration"

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well tbf, they did keep moving them on me and hiding them from me.

Wouldn't be surprised if they moved them again...behind an AI wall that can interact with them but you can't without using that AI. Also they'll continue to reset them whenever they feel like it, if they even successfully get changed by the AI, if the AI doesn't say "I can't let you do that Dave" when you try and disable telemetry.

[–] Brandonazz@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Or maybe the AI just lies and says it changed the setting and then doesn't. There's a 'delete my data' button on reddit profiles that is literally a fake button, it wouldn't even be a new tactic.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

I figured that's what this was not their way to help find where ms moved them