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Insane: Microsoft's latest ad proves how useless Copilot on Windows 11 actually is (www.neowin.net)

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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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[–] luciole@beehaw.org -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Now, Copilot asks Aura to navigate to the Display settings in Windows and change the text scale to 150% which is the recommended option. The really funny part here is that the scaling is already set to 150%, so changing it wouldn't really make a difference. Apparently in order to work around this gaffe, Aura quickly manually sets the scale to 200%, which solves the problem but isn't what Copilot actually suggested

Not gonna lie I was expecting something more substantial.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but to be fair it is substantial enough. This is very basic support issue. Most users (I suspect) wouldn't need any help with this. Any user who does need help from Copilot to change the font size would probably be further confused. If Copilot cannot handle something this simple, how in the world can anyone expect it to be useful and accurate in more complicated situations?

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

The article does not mention this, but it's also not a correct solution at all for increasing text size (which was what the guy was asking it how to do). From the reader context of the tweet:

The user asked how to increase text size, but Copilot incorrectly advised changing the "Scale" option in Settings > System > Display. This enlarges text, but also resizes UI, apps, and other elements

To change only text size, go to Settings > Accessibility > Text size.