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Microsoft has published an ad promoting Copilot on Windows 11, but it contains a hilarious error that actually proves how useless the AI is.

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the problem is two fold and this applies to all LLMs.

  1. according to the article the person asked HOW to increase the font size. Copilot then tells Aura to go increase the font size so it's not exactly what the person asked.

  2. like all LLMs it MUST provide a solution. it MUST do something. Copilot asks Aura to increase the font size to 150%. it's already at 150%. but instead of going back to the user and saying "the font size is already set to 150%, would you like to increase it more?" it just goes ahead and bumps it up to 200 because it has to. it has no choice, it must provide some kind of solution. LLMs like GPT5, Claude, etc will do similar crap which ultimately shows that recent models are all collectively garbage. they now must ALL provide some sort of solution even if the majority of the time said solutions are actually hallucinations. LLMs aren't allowed to say "I don't know" or "it's already done" or whatever.

So this video/article just shows how pointless and unreliable LLMs/AI are at even the most basic things. They've all been told that they must provide some kind of solution, always. It's especially bad now with recent updates. Claude will hallucinate 8 times out of 10 for its solutions. GPT5 now just info dumps on you hoping something in there will resonate, it can't provide an accurate precise solution anymore it just vomits on your plate and calls it a meal.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hold up,

[...] instead of going back to the user and saying "the font size is already set to 150%, would you like to increase it more?" it just goes ahead and bumps it up to 200 because it has to.

No it did not. Copilot doesn't click or change anything in this video, that's the user clicking 200% after copilot told him to make it 150%.

The only actual flaws here is Copilot not seeing the size was already set to 150%

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So copilot failed at the most basic thing in windows, which is the entire point.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Right, so there's no need to make up something it did wrong

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 3 points 3 days ago

sorry I just went off the article and didn't watch the video.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

It seems like people are so eagre to bash AI that they're willing to invent their own narrative to shit on anyone who remotely sounds like they support it, even if that's not the case.

I appreciate you actually taking the time and effort to read.