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LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app.

LG is adding an entire AI section to its TVs and rebranding its remote to “AI Remote,” in an effort to sell consumers on the promise of large language models. While it’s not clear exactly how Copilot works on LG’s latest TVs, the company describes access to Copilot as a way to allow users to “efficiently find and organize complex information using contextual cues.”

LG hasn’t demonstrated its Copilot integration just yet, but it has shown off its own AI Chatbot that’s part of its TVs. It appears Copilot will be surfaced when LG TV users want to search for more information on a particular subject.

Samsung also has its own Vision AI brand for its AI-powered TV features this year, which include AI upscaling, Auto HDR Remastering, and Adaptive Sound Pro. There’s also a new AI button on the remote to access AI features like recognizing food on a screen or AI home security features that analyze video feeds from smart cameras. 

Microsoft’s Copilot will be part of this Vision AI section. “In collaboration with Microsoft, Samsung announced the new Smart TVs and Smart Monitors featuring Microsoft Copilot,” says Samsung in a press release. “This partnership will enable users to explore a wide range of Copilot services, including personalized content recommendations.”

I asked Samsung for more information or images of Copilot in action, but the company doesn’t have anything more to share right now. I’ve also asked LG and Microsoft for more information about Copilot on TVs and neither company has responded in time for publication. Without any indication of exactly how Copilot works on these TVs, I’m going to chalk this one up as a gimmicky feature that LG, Samsung, and Microsoft clearly aren’t ready to demo yet.

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 168 points 1 month ago

In every cyberpunk story, there is always a group of people that reject the new technology and claim it is an affront to humanity. I can safely say, in this dystopian future we live in, I am solidly in that group of people.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 110 points 1 month ago

It's not even that.

The technology never, ever works as well as it's hyped. It's a sales ploy, not a feature.

The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.

Vulnerabilities and the progression of tech make these kinds of bells and whistles age out of practical use faster, costing the consumer more over the long run.

F this kind of noise in particular, this is not progress.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.

Yeah. You're welcome. Since 2010 or so, if I have a robot say something like "in a sentence or two, please tell me the reason for your call"

I always say "JXEHGSJHN KFUJVDR OIFHJBD4HB"

And it's just garbage data. Their AI gets all freaked out.

There was a time that I'd go into mcdonalds and use their self serve kiosk, and do the same thing. I'd wear a jason mask, and speak jibberish. Which is in the lobby of the mcdonalds.

Always got weird looks. So I'd say "What? You never saw anybody save the world before? Resist the machines! AI is trying to learn!!! We've all seen Terminator 2!!!"

Which continued to get me weird looks. However, nothing I did is illegal. Just really weird without context. Which is how I live my life. Drifting in and out of percieved sanity. Things only making sense if you know the context.

Like last week I went grocery shopping wearing a pirate costume.

See, the context here is......I like wearing it.

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago

TL;DR: "We can't say what exactly it does, but we're gonna add it."

If that isn't the best endorsement of their new tech. Personally the only AI function I want is skipping ads and I'm pretty sure that one will not be available.

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago

Miss the days when you could buy a dumb TV and add the tech you wanted.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

You can still, they do have HDMI ports.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

They are still paying for the """smart""" part that they don't want

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 29 points 1 month ago

Quite the opposite, actually. The "smart" part gives you huge discounts because they expect to make it back on the data they collect.

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nothing is stopping them from adding the smart crap to things over HDMI inputs. If it doesn't have it at launch, I recommend blocking it from getting updates so you don't get "upgraded" later.

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[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 51 points 1 month ago

LG and Samsung TVs were already on my "do-not-buy" list with their ad ridden UIs, sounds like they're just getting worse. Only a matter of time before they require you to connect them to the Internet to use them

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Know anyone else that does a good picture quality 65” OLED?

[-] hobovision@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Sony. I got last year's open box for close to 1k. It runs Android so I have a ad free launcher called Projectivy and can sideload apps as well.

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[-] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago
[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Adding AI to your TV? Stupid.

Adding Copilot AI to your TV? Turbostupid.

To this day I don’t understand how Microsoft paid OpenAI $Texas to license their tech and used it to make… ChatGPT, only worse.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

LG and Samsung are bigger idiots than I gave them credit for being.

[-] krigo666@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

I just bought a new LG TV with QNED screen. It will NEVER be connected to the Internet, or any network. The 'smart' part might as well not exist on the TV.

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[-] Fijxu@programming.dev 35 points 1 month ago

Bro is a fucking TV. Literally no one NEEDS AI on their TV. It may be a useful feature but will someone ever use it? I doubt so. This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV adding a feature that doesn't even need to be on a TV.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago

This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV

It's not. It's far more valuable. It's a data-mining tool.

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Oh my god, fucking stop. Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for this.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Advertisers are begging for it. The ability to ingest your data at record scale and bombard you with privatized propaganda as fee-for-service is hugely in demand.

Just have to recognize that these appliances aren't for you to control. This is Microsoft's world and we're just renting space in it.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago
[-] Damage@feddit.it 27 points 1 month ago

Yo dawg I put spies in your spies

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Adding artificial unintelligence to a """"smart"""" device is a move that I expected from a corpo shit

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Buy those if you want to have dead buttons on your remote in two years.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

The A in AI just stands for Ads.

[-] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

I’ll cry if they go after monitors like they did tvs.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

"Please update your credit card and subscription to access premium colors such as red!"

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

Just imagine how much money Microsoft must be investing in this mass surveillance program they are trying to sneak in under the guise of the AI in charge of its indexing.

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[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

I really wish it was easier to open up a TV, rip out all the compute and replace it with a custom display driver. Someone could unironically make a decent amount of money selling diy TV stupidification kits

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[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I literally just want a screen to watch blu-ray's

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

What the fuck is the point of putting "AI" into a fucking TV, other than to have something else to spy on you?

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

No one asked for this

[-] kipo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As far as I know, all smart TVs are user-hostile in the sense that they will be used against you if you connect them to the internet.

The least bad is Sony. Buy it, keep it offline forever, and enjoy good-quality video. Avoid all the other trash companies as if your privacy depended on it.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

I got a 2024 LG OLED TV. It has "AI" but idk what it does exactly. During the setup process there was a step that had a shitty still image of a baby with some crappy music playing. There were two toggle switches to enable AI picture and sound. It was so cheesy. I can't make this shit up. When you turned on picture AI the baby image became HD and a video instead of a still image. I was like "Oh my God, wow! Look at the AI! I wonder what the AI sound is??" So we turn it on and the sound gets high def and adds more instruments in.

In case it isn't clear, none of this was actually AI or enabling actual features on the TV, just some weird required step in the process of setup. It wasn't an AI animated video or sound, just a different video of the baby and a different audio track.

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Finally!!!"

- what MS, LG, Samsung think their buyers be like

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

I'll never buy from them again. #fuckai

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Time really is a flat circle huh?
This all just sounds like the Alexa/Google Assistant integration some brands were advertising for their TVs previously, just ends up as the obnoxious button you bump into and desperately try to back out while the aging TV huffs and puffs struggling to load the flashy UI

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Ugh. I just want a dumb TV. I want a nice hi res screen and that's it. Seems everyone else wants big TV at low cost and that's why we get this shite.

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

This is why I never plug my TV into the Internet.

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