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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:32:32 JST mcc

   Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 11:55:12 JST mcc

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     My experience with Windows 10 was me turning off the "Bing" features, and one day turning on my computer and discovering overnight with an automatic update Microsoft had turned them back on, and everything I typed into the Start search was being forwarded to a network service. This happened more than once.

     It won't be enough to turn Windows 11's "AI" surveillance features off. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume a feature you turn off today will be silently turned on later.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:24:50 JST mcc

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     Similarly, it won't be enough for Microsoft to claim the data their "AI" surveillance features collect is kept local. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume Microsoft will eventually silently turn a local query into a network query without telling you. And even local storage can be accessed by malware, employers, or family members.

     There is only one way, *only* one way, to prevent data being leaked or misused, and that is to not collect it ( see: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475323390645896 ).

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     datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:25:32 JST datarama

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     @mcc *Of course* it won't be kept local. Same with the "we'll listen in on your phone calls to check for scammers!" features Google is hawking.

     "We're running out of high quality language data!" ... "It's a total coincidence that we've made this decision right now, but we've decided to listen in on every phone call / watch every software interaction anybody ever makes ever again".

     They're after more training data.

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     datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:25:42 JST datarama

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     @mcc Remember when people were saying "you're not the customer, you're the product"?

     You're not even that. You're the raw material for the product.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:26:12 JST mcc

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     @datarama Yeah really importantly once Microsoft's "AI" has normalized this level of surveillance, the generation of stalkerware tools that come after it are going to be even worse. You won't be able to point at it and call it hacking tools or whatever. It's just going to be the same thing Microsoft's commercial operating system does

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:26:13 JST mcc

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     @datarama "Oh, but we *didn't* send the Recall screenshots back to our servers! We only sent anonymized training data weights, as described in our privacy policy*."

     * "Microsoft uses the data we collect to… improve and develop our products". There you go, disclosure responsibilities discharged

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     datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:26:13 JST datarama

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     @mcc I hate it so much. I don't even use Windows, but I know that the things they'll be building using this will be deployed against me nonetheless.

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     datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 15:26:50 JST datarama

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     @mcc Short-term: I am personally lucky that I live in a country that has some fairly restrictive regulations on workplace surveillance. I'm sure that this will spawn even worse spyware, but there are upper limits to how much of it I can legally be forced to use.

     Longer-term: The end-goal of all the AI training is of course to build the Mass Layoff Machine, and that's going to fuck people here over too, if they can just get enough data from people in countries without a history of strong unions.