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[-] [email protected] 343 points 1 month ago

It's not AI that is the problem, it's half baked insecure data harvesting products pushed by big corporations that are the problem.

[-] [email protected] 152 points 1 month ago

The biggest joke is that the LLM in Windows is running locally, it uses your hardware and not some big external server farm. But you can bet your ass that they still use it to data harvest the shit out of you.

[-] [email protected] 139 points 1 month ago

To me this is even worse though. They're using your electricity and CPU cycles to grab the data they want which lowers their bandwidth bills.

It happening "locally" while still sending all the metadata home is just a slap in the face.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

Also, CoPilot is going to be bundled with Office 365, a subscription service. You're literally paying them to spy on you.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • be microsoft, a whole bunch of greedy user-hostile fucks
  • make spyware
  • tell users that spyware is really cool and useful
  • make them pay for the spyware
  • use the spyware to get their data
  • sell their data
  • profit
[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
  • create a monopoly on operating systems
  • leverage your dominant market position and force everyone to use your spyware
  • big profit
[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Exactly. And if I use or even pay for an external LLM service then that's also my decision. But they force this scheme onto every user, whether they want it or not. It's like the worst out of all possible scenarios.

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