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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 153 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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 104 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not only that, but they tend to adopt the new tech on their terms and reject the mainstream adoption approach.

You really start to feel old when the cyberpunk novels of the 80s and 90s start to become reality (not in a literal sense, but elements are definitely coming true). It was 40 years since Neuromancer was released last year.

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 87 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] finley@lemm.ee 85 points 2 weeks ago
[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

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

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[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

My company orders a thousand TVs a month and we've dropped Samsung all together unless a client specifically requests it. I hated them when I was an installer (terrible to mount and configure, especially the Frame TVs) and now I hate them on the pre-sales side of things.

We looked into LG but they're kind of a pain to get quotes from.

We default to Sony now.

[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

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 33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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 20 points 2 weeks 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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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I agree with the sentiment but let me turn the volume up a bit.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 27 points 2 weeks ago

Yo dawg I put spies in your spies

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Former smart TV app developer. I'm going to drive my old dumb lcd TV into the ground before I'm forced to use a "smart" TV.

I prefer casting, but for convenience for my wife, we have a fire tv stick.

I want my panels rendering, not thinking / reporting.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

The A in AI just stands for Ads.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

No one asked for this

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Finally!!!"

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

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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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[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Im planning on upgrading my old TV soon. But a new one will not be connected to the internet during its lifetime. All useful services are available on more powerful and more intuitive devices anyway.

AI on TV is hopefully just the new 3d. Gone soon.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'll never buy from them again. #fuckai

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