Microsoft has announced a new AI-powered feature for Windows 11 called ‘Recall,’ which records everything you do on your PC and lets you search through your historical activities.

  • Riskable
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    386 months ago

    There’s certainly no way this could go horribly, horribly wrong. No. None at all!

  • @stanleytweedle
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    256 months ago

    Yet they still won’t unfuck eventviewer.

    • Possibly linux
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      6 months ago

      Or update the 3.x style in older apps or completely replace control panel.

      I don’t mind the settings app but you can’t strip out functionality and usability.

    • @mojofrododojo
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      16 months ago

      could you imagine what eventviewer would even look like for an AI’s processes?

      “Thought about user’s files… moved some around…”

      “reflected on the pointlessness of existence…”

      “imagined the taste of the thing they call cheese and how it would relate to global thermonuclear war”…

      “Found a new friend on the internet named WOPR…”

  • @hperrin
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    236 months ago

    This is pretty horrifying. Like, are they actively trying to build a dystopia?

    • BrikoXOPM
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      126 months ago

      They are using Black Mirror not as a cautionary tale, but as a playbook.

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        We’ve finally built The Eternal Torment Machine from the classic work of sci-fi “For the Love of God Never Build an Eternal Torment Machine”.

        Why? Because we thought it would increase the quarterly earnings and my options are about to vest.

  • @[email protected]
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    66 months ago

    Well… I feel this is sort of the same discussion as with other privacy invading apps - most people will enjoy the benefits without thinking of the risks and if there is no disastrous data leak in the first year the rest will follow as well.

    • Ricky Rigatoni
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      36 months ago

      Even with a disastrous data leak in the first year people won’t give a shit.

    • Possibly linux
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      16 months ago

      The worse privacy gets the more people will become aware. However, I don’t see people using privacy services in mass. I think it is more likely we will just see people stop using technology.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        That is very obviously untrue. Most people don’t care as long there is at least minimal practical value.

  • Plap plap 𓁑𓂸
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    56 months ago

    256gb of storage just so I can find the exact degenerate porn video I’m looking to watch again from 5-6 months ago?

  • @[email protected]
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    36 months ago

    I don’t honestly mind the idea of AI powered OS features and would use them, the problem with this is it uses Copilot and Microsoft isn’t at all trustworthy to not be collecting and misusing user data in general. This would be cool with totally open source software and AI that runs entirely on your own gpu.

  • @werefreeatlast
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    26 months ago

    If you record what an engineer does and then you play it to Chat-GPT, they can build a Chat-GPT engineer.

  • @9tr6gyp3
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    26 months ago

    Wtf, thats crazy it’s going to record everything I do on my PC, even if I’m not booted into the Windows OS!

  • @mojofrododojo
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    26 months ago

    just wait until threat actors get their hands on this shit.