The big thing here is consent. If you run it yourself, i.e. opt into it. Then it's consensual.
Microsoft has demonstrated over a long period of time they are happy to force "optional" anti consumer things into people through
Oh! You have misunderstood the whole concept of privacy. I have a thought experiment for you:-
Let's assume Microsoft is not lying 🤥. The data (screenshot) remains on device, which is passed to some AI model like Image-to-text etc. This model generates text on-device. But no where Microsoft guarantee's that the text generated or output from those AI models won't be sent to the Microsoft. They only say the screenshots and AI models remain on-device, but the output/metadata can be sent to Microsoft.
That is the issue. Earlier there were many apps where Microsoft couldn't pry because they were encrypted etc. Now they don't need to break any encryption they just need metadata. That's easy to transfer and use.
Governments can already subpoena chat companies (Facebook Messenger, Discord) for records. Imagine what they'll get if they just have your desktop and they suspect you of wrong think.
Kind of a big "But" for a company that makes so much background stuff run with the same SYSTEM account and doesn't even drop privileges to dedicated users like more sophisticated OSes (e.g. Linux) do.
Genuine unpopular opinion and the people downvote it... In a community named "Unpopular Opinion".
One small bug in implementation can make it a juicy attack vector. Sure you can configure it to give more privacy, but how many users will do such configuration? Many casual user didn't even bother changing their user/computer name (how many times have you seen the user named "user", "asus", or any other default?)
Found the Microsoft Simp.
Never thought I'd see microscoff astroturfing on Lemmy. We've made it!
Thanks for the new words to filter on here 😘
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