HP injects AI into its printers

liendolucas

My theory at this point would be that top management for their printing division must be an ex-HP consumer that got so pissed off with the printing crap at the time that decided to infiltrate the company and dedicate its life to ruin HP printers in every conceivable way. What else could it be?

alterae

> It calls the first Perfect Output; a feature designed to remove unwanted elements before printing and to optimize printouts.

I think "perfect output" would be to reproduce the input on paper as precisely as real-world hardware constraints permit. This here is no longer useful as a printer.

I can kinda see why they are doing this but it's still deeply annoying, when all I really want from the printer industry is a printer that prints.

reginald78

> I am not crazy! I know HP swapped those numbers. I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. HP covered their tracks, they got that AI for the log files to lie for them.

Why would anyone want a printer that decides to print something different than what you sent it? Aren't these things unreliable enough as is?

rsynnott

Oof. If I had shares in any AI-ish company, I think I'd probably take this as my cue to sell. EXTREMELY peak-of-bubble behaviour.

onemoresoop

Does anyone still buy new HP printers? I stopped a long time ago. So far Brother has had my business.

TrackerFF

I'm all for noble ideas, but some of them can set a dangerous precedence.

No effing way do I want my printed text to go through some LLM, even if it's just for design/layout purposes.

Just waiting for some HP Clippy-clone with HAL 9000 voice. "I'm sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t print that"

sunshine-o

A few days ago I finally gave up on ever buying and owning an HP printer at home.

While the mechanical part is OK, the software and consumable ecosystem is insanity.

They might think AI will fix it but is gonna be without me.

xyst

Headline: “AI printer hallucinates 100mg as 100g sugar in cookbook. Leads to massive confusion. At least one person diagnosed with diabetes. Publisher files for bankruptcy”

StayTrue

Or just block ads in the first place rather than filtering them at the print driver level.

ptx

Do they really need AI to prevent page breaks in the middle of images, which seems to be the main improvement demonstrated in the screenshots? Most word processing applications have handled this perfectly well for decades.

sevensor

Great innovation. Maybe soon they’ll figure out how to make a printer with drivers that work.

8035

Am I the only one that read this as "HP Inkjets AI into its printers" ?

muhehe

No, no, no. Do NOT touch my content. I don't care how bad you think it is. Do not modify it. Ever. Printers are such a crap already. Now to actually have to very carefully check if the glorious super intelligent machine changed some numbers (hello xeror) is not something I want.

zomdar

is this peak ai?

snvzz

Perfect Output

What I expect it means: What You See Is What You Get to the extreme. Absolutely predictable printing.

What HP, instead, thinks: What the actual fuck.

Ferret7446

This feels like the hardware equivalent of some braindead dev putting some business logic in the authentication layer of the stack or some shit.

This kind of thing should be done in the application or maybe the driver, not the printer.

madaxe_again

This is going to be the xerox copier bug all over again, isn’t it.

altruios

What 'kind' of AI is it? the article doesn't say.

n_ary

Why am I even not surprised? The only time HP disappointed me was in cryptocurrency era where they failed to react in time and integrate a crypto wallet to print txn or facilitate blockchain printing ledger or something.

HP appears to integrate anything that is riding the hype. Thankfully, from one of their hype I have one of the best printers they ever made so I suppose, sometimes food things come out of hype.

SirFatty

As if I needed another reason not to buy HP products.

NikkiA

Honestly surprised that they'd remove ads from a printout rather than replace them with their own sponsored content.

hagbard_c

They obviously did not learn from Xerox's content-modifying copier episode [1] so the wait is for the articles in the news about how that HP printer helpfully changed the printout which caused something unpleasant to happen.

[1] https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

blackeyeblitzar

If they would do this in a printer how can any of their products be trusted?

hofo

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