:quotesL: Because we leverage Microsoft’s #Bing technology to power some parts of this feature, the Microsoft Privacy Statement will apply to any personal data you may input into the input box for the AI-powered takeaways feature, as well as any personal data included in any Bing provided results :quotesR:
Reduced my thoughts on Copilot+ PC, as announced, to a piece for Forbes.
TLDR: Also we should think about compliance with things like subpoenas and how completely can anything ever be deleted with such a system.
The more I think about it, the less this seems like a well thought-out product for pros. Dreamed up by coders that already have had their life’s work sucked up by GPT through #Github.
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This tiny PC is now packing the most powerful laptop chip AMD makes!
Funnily enough, Microsoft threw AMD and Intel under the bus.
NONE of the current selling "AI" PCs qualify for the "CoPilot" branding.
Who knows, maybe you don't want that new Microsoft Recall feature on your system anyway?
"The more effective approach to both risks is a focused pursuit of secure-by-default systems in the long term, and a focus on investment in engineering defenses such as unphishable credentials (like passkeys) and implementing multi-party approval for sensitive security contexts throughout production systems."
I'd say that basically means: no #Microsoft products.
On top of the privacy issues raised by #Microsoft#Recall constant screencapture feature is the apparent laziness and overreaching nature of the solution. 1/2
The online backlash to #Windows#Recall amuses me tremendously. I started building a similar open-source (non-AI, local only) thing for #Linux a month ago.
It would take screenshots and create a timeline video of your day. It also enabled searching across your past usage of the computer.
The inspiration was an open-source macOS app called "Rem" which does the same thing.
Ah well, I guess I'll abandon that then, as it's going to be seen as toxic thanks to #Microsoft.
“Questo potrebbe essere un incubo per la privacy”, ha commentato alla Bbc il dottor Kris Shrishak, consulente in materia di intelligenza artificiale e privacy. “Il semplice fatto che vengano catturati degli screenshot durante l’uso del dispositivo potrebbe avere un effetto agghiacciante sulle persone.”
Why does #Microsoft want to implement #Recall? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.
The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.
Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's #GCP data (e.g. #STT transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.
But they can't model what people do on computers.
Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.
But they can't model what people do on computers.
Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.
But they can't model what people do on computers.
Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.
Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.
Microsoft wants #MicrosoftRecall data so they can model what people do with operating systems.
Then replace them.
Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.
That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.
JFC now you need to use a browser Microsoft approves of in your operating system to be able to disable its on-by-default continual surveillance of your every action while using it 👀
There's so much discussion of what Microsoft's latest AI blunder of a feature will do and why it's bad, that I genuinely have no idea what it's even trying to sell as a positive for users. All I'm reading is "Recall is going to record everything you've ever done".
Aren't they at least trying to cover it up with some cool use case to lure some people into trying it? If so they've embarrassingly failed to market it.
Der riesige Unterschiede zwischen #Linux und #Windows ist auch:
Wenn irgendeine Distribution auf die gleiche, völlig bescheuerte Idee käme, wie #Microsoft alles zwingend an online-Accounts und AI-Krampf und sogar automatisierte Screenshots zu tackern, könnte man einfach die Distribution wechseln oder auf einen Fork warten, der vermutlich innerhalb kürzester Zeit entstehen würde und den Murks nicht an Bord hätte. Auditierbar.
Bei Microsoft ist man auf Gedeih und Verderb dem Konzern ausgeliefert.