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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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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

No one asked for this

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

disable the wifi on any smart tv you own

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] perry@aussie.zone 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is why I unplugged my TV from the internet some time ago. It’s been bad for a while but this is insane.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

JUST… WIPE YOUR TVS AND PLUG YOUR COMPUTER IN!

JUST… USE IT AS A BIG EXTERNAL MONITOR!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

The A in AI just stands for Ads.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day 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.

[–] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

that's great and all, but all i want is a true-color, bright brights, black blacks panel to hook my media player up to.

[–] floral_toxicity@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

That's cool and all... But have you also thought about the gains you could make for the rich people behind the curtain if you were just a good citizen and fell in line and connected your TV to the Internet and consumed all the ads?

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day 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.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

This is what happens when rich people and corporations have too much investment money. They get convinced by some technology they think kinda works then dump an ungodly amount of money into it.

Uber is still pushing around investor money over 10 years later and until we start cutting rich people off this stupid AI stuff won't die like it should.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

When I first bought my LG TV, the homescreen was great. The cursor-thing with the remote was annoying, but it didn’t really have ads, it had every app I needed, etc.

But it kept updating and then demanding I give it more permissions. Kept getting worse and worse as time went on. So recently I said fuck it, bought an Apple TV, and did a factory reset on the TV. The TV is just a TV now, it has no WiFi access so it doesn’t ever bother me. And the Apple TV is better than the LG OS ever was. Also I can bring the Apple TV to hotels (if they have accessible HDMI ports) which is pretty neat.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It has "AI" but idk what it does exactly.

It inflates LG’s share price

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

I'm annoyed because I know my purchase is going to count towards showing the success of AI in their product, when in reality it's just coincidental.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of the advertisements for DVDs that would play on VHS tapes, like... I'm watching this on a VHS.

[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who analyzes vast amounts of data on their TV?

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

The TV will analyze every bit of your viewing data, tha6s who. This isn't for consu,era, no matter how they spin it. It's to sell data to advertisers.

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile I am using local models through home assistant. The fact I can run something equivalent to GPT 3.5 turbo on a $800 graphics card kind of negates any of the benefits of these dumb integrations that require NPUs. Maybe Microsoft should bring back basic quality of life improvements that were in Windows 10 in Windows 11 instead of desperately waving their arms around trying to be relevant to consumers. Dumbasses.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Microshit OS division is the best advertising Linux ever got.

Shhj

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd love to use Linux for work, but my job pays me to endure pain.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I have no issue using it for work. It works mehh enough to slow me down from making too much my job creator

[–] jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

But how are you going to integrate with active directory? Oh right you can't, it just limits you to Ubuntu. And good luck finding a company with an IT department that knows how to set that up.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day 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.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I rooted my LG C1 and blocked system updates. I use a homebrew channel to download external packages.

Good luck pushing this crapware on me.

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[–] kipo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm toying with the idea of just getting an LCD projector - I don't care about seeing every pore on the actor's faces, 1024x768 is fine.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

🫣why not 1080p? With 1024, you have no integer scale, and every movie looks like shit.. At least go for 1080 or 720, but not this strange resolution where literally no content fits

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well, I wasn't going to buy their spyware shit anyway.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 169 points 2 days ago (5 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.

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[–] finley@lemm.ee 95 points 2 days ago
[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (20 children)

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

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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day 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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