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.
  • Sculptus Poe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    It needs to be rolled back altogether. If the background spy app isn’t done away with, anything else is pointless window dressing. It was bogging my work computer down to unusable until I found out how to force it not to run.

    • terabyterex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      2 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
      • Sculptus Poe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day 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.

      • 9WhiteTeeth@lemmy.todayEnglish
        13·
        2 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·
            1 day 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·
            1 day 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