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UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots

28 points by hassanahmad 2y ago

kotaKat 2y ago
Microsoft will just use their fancy new regional-based settings framework and start piecemealing features off in countries that start to complain while leaving it for the rest of the world to suffer with. That’s how they’ve handled the EEA so far and they’ll just keep mashing things the same.
blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
This is the same company who cofounded an industry group called the “Frontier Model Forum” industry group alongside Google and OpenAI and Anthropic, to push for regulations. Amazon and Meta joined this group recently too. The members are required to acknowledge and amplify “trust and safety” issues with AI, and the policies they support will potentially make it illegal to build models that are open or uncensored. Ironically the people we need protection from are these very companies who are violating our privacy and behaving anti competitively, not others who may offer competitive alternatives. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/26/google-microsoft-openai-anthropic-ai-frontier-model-forum https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/26/google-mi...
hulitu 2y ago
> Microsoft says Recall is an "optional experience" and it is committed to privacy and security. Haha. Just like telemetry.
pjmlp 2y ago
I hope they nail them down, and EU also follows suit.
lemper 2y ago
> "built privacy into Recall’s design" from the beginning, and users will have control over what is captured. > For example, users can opt out of capturing certain websites, and private browsing on Microsoft's own Edge browser will not be captured. bro, privacy but opt-out is kind of unsmart, innit?
- autoexec 2y ago
  > For example, users can opt out of capturing certain websites I'm sure people will feel a lot better knowing that if they don't AI capturing screenshots of every porn site they visit, when, for how long, and how often, they just have to send MS a list of all the porn sites they visit and MS will promise not to watch.
  - hulitu 2y ago
    Porn sites will be used to prosecute you later. (see Assange or every person who messed up with the CIA). The Matrix is doing well.

28 points by hassanahmad 2y ago

Microsoft will just use their fancy new regional-based settings framework and start piecemealing features off in countries that start to complain while leaving it for the rest of the world to suffer with. That’s how they’ve handled the EEA so far and they’ll just keep mashing things the same.

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago

This is the same company who cofounded an industry group called the “Frontier Model Forum” industry group alongside Google and OpenAI and Anthropic, to push for regulations. Amazon and Meta joined this group recently too. The members are required to acknowledge and amplify “trust and safety” issues with AI, and the policies they support will potentially make it illegal to build models that are open or uncensored. Ironically the people we need protection from are these very companies who are violating our privacy and behaving anti competitively, not others who may offer competitive alternatives. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/26/google-microsoft-openai-anthropic-ai-frontier-model-forum https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/26/google-mi...

hulitu 2y ago

> Microsoft says Recall is an "optional experience" and it is committed to privacy and security. Haha. Just like telemetry.

pjmlp 2y ago

I hope they nail them down, and EU also follows suit.

lemper 2y ago

> "built privacy into Recall’s design" from the beginning, and users will have control over what is captured. > For example, users can opt out of capturing certain websites, and private browsing on Microsoft's own Edge browser will not be captured. bro, privacy but opt-out is kind of unsmart, innit?

autoexec 2y ago
> For example, users can opt out of capturing certain websites I'm sure people will feel a lot better knowing that if they don't AI capturing screenshots of every porn site they visit, when, for how long, and how often, they just have to send MS a list of all the porn sites they visit and MS will promise not to watch.
- hulitu 2y ago
  Porn sites will be used to prosecute you later. (see Assange or every person who messed up with the CIA). The Matrix is doing well.