Baffling Microsoft ad shows Copilot incorrectly identifying Windows 11 setting

If only you could spend 0.0...x of all the AI investment to design the settings well with proper search.

al_borland 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> But even still, the user had asked how to change the size of text, not the UI.

This seems like nitpicking to try and get a gotcha moment. Most normal people who think text is too small at an OS level want the whole display scaled, not just the text. They don’t know to ask for display scaling though, that isn’t a normal thing grandma knows about.

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eviks an hour ago | parent | next [-]

No, most of current UI has huge wasted whitespace, so just increasing the text size could be better for the grandma because of fewer "I can't see that section because all the extra whitespace pushed it off screen so now I have to scroll"

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BrouteMinou 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's what I thought.

That's exactly how a "normal" user would ask such things.

I am not a Microsoft fan, or copilot, or even an A.I. fan, but the article seems to try too hard to find a problem here.

That's not like we don't have real examples around...

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watwut 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are they? The reason for larger text for me is that I cant read it. It really does not mean I want who ui bigger, unless it is text being displayed.

Why do you think most people want scalling overall being changed? It does not make sense to me. Contemporary UIs are wasting so much space, there is no reason to double everything. Just the small font you used inside those giant empty spaces.

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al_borland 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Usually if the text is too small to read, the UI elements are too small to read as well.

I ran into this with VS Code. I have a giant monitor and wanted to increase the text side to avoid eye strain. I made the editor text bigger, but then struggled to see the text in the sidebar or other areas of the UI. Scaling for the app worked much better and it solved the problem everywhere in the app. It also still looks normal, increasing text size alone looked ridiculous, imo.

	▲	eviks an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> struggled to see the text in the sidebar or other areas of the UI. So your fist step didn't increase all text size, that's all, different from the OS setting that does UI scaling would proportionally increase the size of a button. Text scaling would only increase the text in a button

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stevesimmons 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Surprised their ads don't show customers getting pissed about a huge, distracting Copilot icon right in the middle of their Word document, with no ability to turn it off...

	▲	brian-armstrong 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"Copilot, how do I remove Copilot?"
	▲	beefnugs 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		We haven't jumped the shark until AI takes over so pervasively that only truthful ads with everyone getting pissed at everything not working is the norm. Entire PR and advertising companies are replaced and nobody cares that the slop-out is too reality
	▲	AniseAbyss 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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ta9000 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just installed Steam OS on a mini pc we use for gaming. One less windows device in the house, and the UI for desktop mode is perfectly adequate. It’s obvious how to change the text size, no AI needed.

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hollow-moe 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

website hijacks my back button first press to ask me if i want to see more articles, on the blacklist it goes.

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hyperhello 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is going to lead to orginizational Reasons to make everything more complicated so the AI can “shine”…

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deafpolygon 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Increasing scaling does improve text sizes for visibility.

	▲	gblargg 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And it might have been exactly what the user wanted, to make everything larger so it's easier to see, not just text.

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nixosbestos 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What is with these comments? Fixating on scaling being similar to text size is missing the entire god damn point by a mile. Are y'all MSFT employees or windows Stockholm syndrome victims?

Someone on Twitter said it best, you ask the AI to bump the font size, it should bump the fucking font size (or scale the whole UI, whatever! Again, not the point!). Showing off an AI that can't do that, or can't even guide you without you constantly reprompting it is so fucking embarrassingly bad, I seriously question holding a third of my NW in MSFT. Staggeringly impressively stupidly bad.

	▲	ta9000 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That concentration risk is high no matter what the outcome with Microsoft stock.

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onetokeoverthe 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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