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Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer (www.theverge.com)
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Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files.

Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is a whole new level of data mining, which is why they want it. Now they will scan everything that's open.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

they want to justify the cost of using AI, which they admit to not generating any profit, they are trying to sell off as much data as they can, so they can offsett the cost of power/water intensive AI.