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>Microsoft’s groundbreaking new AI-powered tool can search and recall anything you’ve seen or done on your PC like a personal historian.

Wow, no security impact here.

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I like how a highly invasive on-device survelliance is marketed as a "personalized historian".

Real great gag from the company that hasn't had a reliable local file search since Windows XP.

The word stasi was already taken.

Luckily they were shut down in 2021 so the name's free again[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency

Cynicism entirely warranted.

I do think this is a flying-taxi feature that everyone will be using in 50 years.

What happens to privacy during that journey? As long as there are taboos, there will be a desire for privacy.

Neuromancer - your data can be hacked, protect it with industrial ice?

Culture - privacy is a result of benign AIs respecting confidentiality?

"To ensure your privacy against malicious use, we seed about 15% of the logs with fabricated entries that don't actually correspond with what you were doing on your computer."

"Wait a minute... doesn't GPT-4 still have a 15% hallucination rate when it comes to document summarization?"

"Moving right along..."

can't help but laugh and think of "ruin my search history" which when clicked on will make your system search google for lots of interesting stuff like "isis application form" and "mail order paternity test".

We need a "fix my search history" adding searches like "too many windows ads install linux"

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