Microsoft Paint's new AI features criticized for poor performance

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-07-30 07:42

Microsoft Paint, a long-standing image editing tool, has recently incorporated AI-powered features, including a "generative erase" function. However, user experiences suggest these new AI capabilities are not performing as expected, with the generative erase tool being slow and ineffective at completely removing unwanted elements from images. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates early-stage AI integration in common desktop applications, highlighting current limitations in user experience and effectiveness.

RANK_REASON A feature update to a widely used but non-frontier software product.

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Microsoft Paint's new AI features criticized for poor performance

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Recently I needed to quickly edit a picture to remove a few bits. So I fired up Paint on my windows machine to do that. Reader, did you know that Paint now has

Recently I needed to quickly edit a picture to remove a few bits. So I fired up Paint on my windows machine to do that. Reader, did you know that Paint now has AI features? And like my experience with AI everywhere it's shit at its job. The only thing I wanted to do was erase som…

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Recently I needed to quickly edit a picture to remove a few bits. So I fired up Paint on my windows machine to do that. Reader, did you know that Paint now has

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