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Sends everything you write to Microsoft.


Unless and until I see a clear privacy police analyzed by a lawyer, stating categorically that this doesn't happen, I think it's wise to assume that you are correct here.


There's a reason Windows went from 'MyComputer' to 'This PC'.


While it's possible they meant something nefarious, I think the goal was probably just to prevent confusion around shared computers. Such confusion might seem unlikely, but when your market is as big as Microsoft's even unlikely things happen all the time.


"Our PC"


Kinda defeats the point of “AI PCs” then…


You've got it reversed. AI PCs are just SPAs. You offload the workload to the client then send the resulting payload back.


> You've got it reversed. AI PCs are just SPAs.

Microsoft's "CoPilot PCs" scheme places a lot of emphasis on the hardware being powerful enough for locally-processed "AI" features and isn't about offloading everything (I suspect because they're starting to acknowledge that not everyone has a highly-reliable multi-megabit Internet connection).


Dumb terminals, like the 60's.


that sounds like an incredible feedback system. what should we start [typing] to them? how would we know someone read it?


when you can't login into Windows anymore because your required Microsoft online account got banned.


When you want to rewrite something with such kind of AI, do you intend to send it somewhere else or you want to keep for yourself?


Yes, I intend to send it to its intended recipient, which most of the time happens to NOT be Microsoft or its affiliates.


A notes app? Clearly the words are private until I choose to share them with specific people.




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