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LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

Artificial IntelligenceDecember 20, 2025
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LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems
LG says it'll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren't going away. ...

Online fury erupted this week after an LG TV owner claimed that a firmware update installed unremovable generative AI software on their smart TV.

The controversy began on Saturday, when a Reddit user posted about the sudden appearance of a Microsoft Copilot icon on their device (something Windows users are all too familiar with). The Reddit user claimed that a “new software update installed Copilot” onto their LG TV and that it couldn’t be deleted.

“Pre-installed crap is universally dogshit. If I wanted it, I’d have installed it myself eventually. The whole reason it’s bundled is because no one would choose it… Burn your television,” another Reddit user responded in the thread, which has 36,000 upvotes as of this writing.

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Source: Ars Technica

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