Microsoft is using AI slop to promote Windows 11 features, and it’s painfully obvious

Microsoft is using AI slop to promote Windows 11 features, and it’s painfully obvious

By Abhijith M B
Publication Date: 2026-03-15 21:59:00

Microsoft is using Copilot-generated images in Windows Learning Center blogs to showcase features of the operating system

As of writing, Microsoft has a market cap of around $3 trillion, and the company is more than equipped to hire A-list celebrities for its promotional materials. But even then, at a time when Windows 11 is despised for the excessive AI push, the software giant decided to use Copilot to generate “creative” images with people in them, all in the name of showcasing the OS’s features.

Microsoft has a dedicated Windows Learning Center page where the company puts out a bunch of explainer and how-to blogs about several features in Windows 11. By late 2025, Copilot got ChatGPT’s power image generation capabilities, which was when Microsoft experimented with using AI-generated images in these blog posts.

Windows Latest first noticed the tag “AI Art Created via Copilot” as a caption under the embedded image in almost all blog posts in…