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   Ian Betteridge (ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 17:37:15 JST Ian Betteridge

   The funny thing about Microsoft's new Recall feature is how little actual "AI" it's doing. It's basically just making automatic screen captures, then running OCR and image recognition to create a semantic index you can search. Unless I'm missing something, there's no LLM (or small language model) used in it. Maybe in parsing queries?

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 17:37:13 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @ianbetteridge My main takeaway from doing (admittedly fairly high-level overview type) writing, research, and documentation in the current machine learning/AI space is that a load of things that weren't AI two years ago are suddenly AI.

     Like, just a tonne of bog-standard automation.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 18:11:17 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
     firm nod. a common mistake people make is to look at a piece of remotely-controlled software and assume it will keep on doing only what it does now, forgetting we're in the enshittocene, and that software that's not under your control *will* be enshittified to better exploit you.
     this pile of personal data that MS is going to collect on your computer will *initially* only be used for local searches, but it is quite fitting as a strategy for Microsoft to challenge Google's and Meta's dominance in targeted advertising, with data that Google and Meta haven't dared collect yet, to the best of my knowledge
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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 18:11:18 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     @ianbetteridge Would be interesting to capture network traffic to see if the resulting sqlite db gets uploaded/queried to whatever AI data ingestion mechanism. I fully expect some sort of API for that exists or will soon be added and Microsoft might start offering access to that API to the highest bidder(s).