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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare (www.lifewire.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 6 months ago (1 children)

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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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 6 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism almost perfected.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months 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 6 months 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.