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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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[-] scheep@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

possible issues:

  1. blurred a part of the photo that shouldn't be blurred, data loss
  2. erased the wrong object, data loss
  3. deleted large chunks of content in my docs/ppts/spreadsheets I wanted to keep, data loss

This is a really bad idea

[-] scheep@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

letting AI do whatever it wants to your files is not very good...

[-] JordanZ@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

But if you stick all of your files into OneDrive and turn on version history you can keep trying… /s

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