Microsoft is getting even more desperate with AI 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft going all in on the AI bandwagon…

Bing, Edge, Windows… now it’s Notepad’s turn.

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“Custom rewrite” — tweak tone, format and length:

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Not bad but I doubt most people will use it.

Most people just use Notepad as a simple text editor to hold temp info and other super short-term stuff… not for this.

And wouldn’t it have been much better if it was just a text input to rewrite the text however we want flexibly?

Even good old Paint will be getting AI soon — “generative erase” (lol)

So you can remove any object from the photo and it’ll automagically create a seamless background.

❌ Before erase:

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✅ After erase:

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Two more for the growing list of MS products possessed with the AI spirit.

Even their Surface devices are all about AI now:

Even their Android keyboard app 😂

Remember this?

When Bing Chat first came out — an interesting chatbot getting a lot of attention that could have finally made a dent in Google’s numbers.

Only for them to brutally degrade it into your everyday chatbot.

Then they brought their annoying Copilot button to Edge — one more setting to change whenever I newly install it.

Then they brazenly replaced the NEW TAB button with this garbage in their mobile apps. That was the last straw for me — no more Edge on Android/iOS.

Imagine depriving users of easy access to such a fundamental action in a browser because of AI.

Imagine the horror of a Camera app where you see a Copilot button where the Snap button should be.

Luckily I don’t use Windows anymore so I won’t have to deal with their Copilot in Windows garbage:

And their aggressive marketing has certainly robbed a lot of people the wrong way — like how they did when Edge went Chromium.

Lol… someone was mad.

It’s just insane how many companies jumped on the AI bandwagon ever since ChatGPT.

Notion, Spotify, Zapier, Canva… even Apple finally caved.

Everything is AI now. Even the most mundane procedural algorithm to automate something is AI lol.

No doubt many AI upgrades have been like the recent Google Search Gen AI — that probably decimated traffic of millions of sites out there.

But a great of them add very little value — clearly just to prey on the emotions of users and investors.

But one is certain, this AI hype isn’t stopping anytime soon.

Let’s see how long until the so-called AGI comes around.