Do you really need this?

[Nimos]

So as some might have heard, Microsoft is trying to promote a new feature, obviously AI, who would have guessed.

Here is a quick explanation of what it does:
How would you feel about installing a program that captures an image of your screen "every few seconds" and stores all of them in an archive that spans months? That's the gist of Recall, a new Windows feature announced this week.

Recall is part of Microsoft's Copilot+ suite of AI tools for Snapdragon X Series laptops. It constantly captures images of your desktop to create a browsable and searchable record of (almost) everything you've done on your PC, the size of which is limited only by the drive space you allot to the feature.

If it works as intended (and AI stuff often doesn't), when you've found a snapshot that contains something you're looking for, Recall will analyze the image and pull up the website or file you were looking at when it was taken.

I'm sure most of us have thought something along the lines of "damn, what was that funny tweet I saw yesterday?" and wished we could just ask our computer to find it for us, but I struggle to imagine ever feeling comfortable letting Windows take pictures of everything I do. Microsoft clearly predicted that the feature would raise red flags, and reassures prospective users that this isn't a ploy to get them to opt in to total surveillance.

The screenshots are stored locally, and "Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements," reads an FAQ. Microsoft also says that you can tell Recall not to take snapshots of certain apps or websites, and it won't capture Microsoft Edge InPrivate sessions or DRM-protected video (good to know Netflix is safe, I guess).

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Just wondering, is this something people would use? or think is an amazing feature?

I don't get it. Why would you want to do this, the article gives an example of a funny tweet, if that is the best one they could think of, that seems pretty damn useless (Obviously not the person writing the article's fault, as they might think the same as me)

Let's assume your computer is stolen and this garbage is active, then the person can look through everything you have done, potentially getting your passwords, see what you have written, get access to your email and everything that has been screenshotted and saved on the computer while you have used it. I understand that AI is the hottest **** at the moment, but some of these ideas are just insane.

 

[wellwisher]

Apple, minus the AI, has had this for years and was called Time Capsule. Time Capsule was optional and would be activated if and when desired. The activation was usually done with an external hard drive, to save memory on the computer. Time capsule, recorded everything and allowed you to go back into time, flipping through stacks like pictures, even to initial copies of work in progress, done over months, so you could start at the beginning or middle again. The full capability, although cool, was not used quite as much, since people tend to keep going to the future. It saved space by checking the present with the past, and if nothing changed, it did not record it again, but used copy links. If there were changes it added an updated copy and time stamp, in whole or part (plus link).

I suppose, with AI added to this, the AI can be programmed to loop from the past to the present and by combining the new present, it can anticipate where you are going, and maybe suggest the future, and save you time. Most people will not reread all the way from the older drafts, again and again, to remember the point in time their hunch began. They may lose track of the forest because of the growing trees and the ever meandering forest paths. The AI might be able to keep the original trajectory in mind. That could be useful for work or play.

I suppose if Big Brother is watching and is paranoid, the AI might spot patterns of web surfing to pander to their paranoia program by projecting you to the place needed to lock you up. Unlike work or play application, you may not be able to override this AI suggestion. If the Radial Left had this back in 2016, they may have avoided all the scams that were neutralized by Conservative strategy. Now the tide is about to turn.

To avoid Big Brother looking over your shoulder, Apple also offers the option to turn on military grade encryption, which could secure the AI data base and also keep track of AI searches so it is not a double agent. AI oversight firmware, will give anyone a market advantage.