This Nuke Microsoft Windows 11 AI Tool Has Gone Viral

There are lots of things that have gone viral, for all sorts of different reasons. In July, a claim that the Amazon Ring doorbell was hacked on May 28, for example. Dear reader, it had not. In October, a story of mine did the going-viral thing when I reported how Gmail passwords had been confirmed in a 183 million-account infostealer log leak. And they had. The latest viral posting, however, is not a news story, but it does concern a hack of sorts: a developer released a tool to strip Windows 11 of its AI capabilities, and X is lapping it up.

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RemoveWindowsAI Script Nukes Microsoft AI

As first reported by Josh Quittner, CEO of Decrypt, the “RemoveWindowsAI” tool that claims to get rid of Microsoft Windows 11 AI components, including Copilot, Recall and more, has gone viral after Tom Dörr, who tweets about AI…