Microsoft Recall takes constant screenshots of everything you do

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Devils advocate/utopia hypothetical-
In a vacuum, where you could be personally guaranteed this data remains on device and you the user had complete control and ownership, I can see how this could be useful.
But I would never allow a third party that sort of access, full stop
- On linux you could easily do it, by running a script every n minutes that takes a screenshot and pipes it to an ai and then stores it wherever you want (including a local NAS)
  With some extra effort you could tie it into the DE/WM and take a screenshot when a new app is opened or on focus switch or virtual desktop change or whatever and then slow down the periodic ones - so you don't end up making 3000 screenshots of the same long gaming session. Or just constantly log the currently running processes as well to give the ai additional context.
  There are so many cool opportunities with this. I hope somebody makes something cool and useful with it for Linux, that runs completely locally. You could then ask your computer "Hey, what video did I watch about godot a week ago, it had something with tilesets in it and I was coding alongside it". Or "how many hours have I been working on that project for in the last 2 weeks?'
  
  Or "how many hours have I been working on that project for in the last 2 weeks?’
  I highly doubt current AI models are capable of figuring out which bit of work you do is related to which project.
- Yes. If it was an opt-in feature and we knew beyond all doubt that it was stored locally-only, and for the user only, it could be a useful feature for some folks. Unfortunately, Microsoft has a long history of doing stupid and/or evil shit 'for' the user, with the attitude of 'Clippy knows best'.
- I mean sure but if you get hacked (which will eventually happen to someone if this is rolled out) just having the information stored in the first place becomes a risk. So I think it is better to not have it in the first place.
  _Anti _{Commercial-AI} _license _(CC _BY-NC-SA _4.0)
  
  With this attitude there would be no progress ever.

Next they will be using your web cam to take pictures of you because ... reasons. Then they will turn on your mic and record so that if you verbalize thoughts that don't make it to your computer screen you can recall those too. Where does it end? I don't want to know.
- Before that happens, they will just use all that screenshot data to train their AIs.

Thanks, I hate it. Welcome new linux users.

"But I have to use Office" / "I want to play league", and people won't care 🤷
Anti Commercial-AI license

Don't watch your weird porn collection on Windows, got it.

But it's perfectly safe you guys. It would take a completely run of the mill virus from literally anywhere to get this data remotely. What are the chances?!

I was just thinking the other day "I should just run Problem Steps Recorder 24/7 because why the fuck not?"
But thanks to MS' bad idea implementation department I don't have to!

You know actually this is great way for Microsoft for surveillance. Not all apps and there data was accessible to Microsoft, like some data were encrypted etc. No that they are taking screenshot they can directly run those screenshots through ML Models. ML Models Maybe on device but the output/metadata they produce might be sent to Microsoft. For example Microsoft might run Image-to-Text on device but all the text from output could be sent to Microsoft. Your data will remain on device but Microsoft will still know
- to be honest, it's my personal opinion they were already doing similar things before
  
  Not wrong, just a useful justification...

I don't think this is really meant to be a memory function. From this function an incredible dataset of epic proportions will be created of user computer behaviours and how certain software is used. Openai will then get metadata to train ai that will be able to use any software and do anything on a computer and understand and mimic all possible stuff. I don't think they will literally sell the data, but in some way this will be used to train ai, probably with metadata of it. Honestly I don't see a big deal. I guess it has to be like that. I think it would be fair to make all ai opensource since it's trained on everyone, but for sure that's not going to happen. But I prefer to have it than not.
- Expert pornhub AI... Would it jerk itself ?
  
  Perhaps it will already know which kink you want before you even do. 🤣
- Openai will then get metadata to train ai that will be able to use any software and do anything on a computer and understand and mimic all possible stuff. I don’t think they will literally sell the data
  How do you expect OpenAI will get the data? And given Microsoft inserting ads all over the place, do you not believe they won't sell data?
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  Yes, I wasn't precise. I assumed we all understand it's about the money.
- I suspect you'd have a hard time training anyone to use software based on (say) a screenshot every sixty seconds. May be wrong.
  
  I haven't seen 60s before. I understood like it depends on the activity.

So basically the same as half the school administered laptops full of remote spyware. We had one of those bought home, supplied to teaching staff, the spyware was never disclosed and it used to sit on a desk in the bedroom. The rule now is we buy and control our own devices, even if they have to run shit like Windows for compatibility on some. Enterprise versions of Windows will almost certainly ship without crap like Recall as it might conflict with the enterprises third party spyware. Unfortunately there is still intense institutional resistance to moving away from the Microsoft ecosystems in some organizations.

there is already a similar paid tool for this, not very popular, not as advanced because it doesn't use AI: https://apse.io/

Nope, it sure doesn't. You know why? Because I don't use windows. That's why. Haven't used Windows on a daily basis since like 2018 and have no plans on doing so ever again.
- Sigma 🗿

this is literally what mobile phones do in North Korea

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