Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows | TechCrunch
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The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.
  • terabyterex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    3 days ago

    the background apo you call “spy app” is recal and its

    1. for copilot + arm pcs only.
    2. off by default
    3. and runs local only, so not spying
    • 9WhiteTeeth@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      Considering it’s a closed source, proprietary system, you sure seem confident about the 'local only not spying ’ thing.

        • 9WhiteTeeth@lemmy.todayEnglish
          10·
          2 days ago

          I hear you, but it’s no secret Windows sends telemetry data back to the Mother Ship, so how can you distinguish whether or not that includes Recall data?

        • tracelr402@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          one of the only things this sort of AI is good at is summarizing, so it could be distilling your most sensitive info down into a brief but juicy dossier that it actually sends encrypted to microsoft. Or it could only send when specific content like political dissidence is detected. Wireshark solves nothing

    • Sculptus Poe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Eh. Okay. If you are saying that copilot sends no data back to microsoft relating to what I am doing on my PC… I… believe?.. You? Thanks?

      One way or another, copilot was running on my PC after an update and was causing a lag in everything including mouse and keyboard input. I disabled it using this method : https://youtu.be/huKvvOKbkaA and the lag immediately went away with no other change.

      So I don’t care if they were sending my personal keyboard info to Putin himself, to copilot main model as prompts, just storing training info in a binary file on my pc or just sitting there doing “nothing” and clogging my memory, it was making a noticeable difference in my PC operation.