Powerpoint Copilot generates unrelated and nonsensical slides

Massimo Barsotti 0 Reputation points
2024-09-27T10:20:36.7933333+00:00

I have been using Copilot for Office in a case that seemed perfect, namely generating slides in PowerPoint from a Word document.

I got quite strange results, i.e., the first version of the slides is good, if I then ask for a modification such as reducing the number of slides (which Copilot in the chat seems to have understood correctly), the result was repeatedly the same, i.e., it proposes me nonsensical slides about the history of Istanbul (!?!).

I don't have any material on Istanbul nor have I ever researched it, so I think (I hope) that it is some kind of Easter Egg popping up when Copilot doesn't understand the command, otherwise it would be a really serious problem. In the screenshots you can see that Copilot interpreted the command correctly, but the result is completely wrong.

I repeated the same sequence several times, starting from scratch, and the result was always the same, i.e., slides about Istanbul.

What's happening here?

First presentation created with Copilot

Refined presentation created with AI

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  1. JOSHUA TRUJILLO 0 Reputation points
    2024-10-03T16:39:05.5533333+00:00

    I have having the same issue. Working from a policy document, trying to generate slides. Has worked perfectly in the past, now generating slides with budget numbers totally unrelated to my policy document and also including strange, unrelated historical dates. Something is clearly wrong.2

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