No duh.
Fuck M$ and this push for pointless Ai integration. Make them do some actual useful shit instead of robbing jobs and creating knockoff art.
This isn’t even A.I., no matter what they call it. It’s OCR and an SQLite database. Honestly, they could have done it 25 years ago .
The Ai part comes in when you search. Your not just doing keyword searches. You can use natural language and the Ai models “understand” what your looking for and will retrieve it. Also you need the AI for image recognition (what was that website I was looking at with the children’s book with a dog on the cover?)
Ah, OK. Thank you! I hadn’t thought of that.
That data they’re collecting is more valuable now that it can be used to train A.I.s. A couple years from now they’ll push some update that lets them exfiltrate it (or its usable features.)
100% this is about generating more AI training data.
This is exactly it, they’re going to feed all this data into a model to try and get an AI to be able to perform operations in the OS like a human would.
Which on the surface of it sounds reasonable, but only if they actually paid people to generate that data for them. And this isn’t even touching the privacy aspects of a record of everything you do being generated and stored in plaintext.
Can’t wait to ask gpt6 what my neighbor was doing on the 19th of October 2024 at 17:00
This is so bad that I’m going to intervene with my elderly parents next PC purchase. Setup a Kubuntu or Mint machine for the using some refurbed wiped former windows 10 machines for a quarter the price.
If you have elderly parents, I advise you all do the same. There are threat actors that want to nab your inheritance before your parents kick the bucket.
I advise Kubuntu or Mint because they’re basically Linux for windows users.
While initially all the screenshots will be stored locally (where people who own your computer through malware can access it), the time will come where Microsoft will deem it “necessary” to store them online, “for safety reasons”. Then the race is open: Will they fall prey to hackers and data leaks before they can happily exploit the data themselves?
Or they go the WhatsApp way and offer users a free “online backup” of the data, unencrypted, turned on by default.
Whatsapp is doing this? How do I turn it off?
edit:
Settings, Chat, Chat Backup
Was on me for me even though I never okayed it
Something I didn’t think about until I saw someone making a post about it on Mastodon is that you may not have to worry about just YOUR PC, but what happens when you are on a zoom call or using another screen sharing app and THEIR PC is taking screen shots?
Now you just can’t worry about your own machine, but every machine out there that might interact with you in that type of way could be capturing data. And if you accidentally have your email up or maybe a password manager, could their PC just be gobbling that up without you knowing?
Hasn’t this always been a possibility? People could always record their screen or take screenshots during meetings or whatever
Since the invention of traffic lights people could just ignore them… Now we know some AI “feature” will ignore them.
See the difference?
