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Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 21 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn't even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge as much as you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.

Edit: 2 things too. Violating user privacy could carry a risk as far as attorney-client privledge goes because attorneys work on 11 from home. So just ransaking all data could cause that right to be waved. Subpoena much?

Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren't editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It's the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.

    ... If people were willing to pay for it, which is a tiny percentage of the small percentage of people that want AI on their windows. Even the people that are all in on chatgpt will very rarely accept paying a cent for it (and it must be a bargain considering that openAI said a few months ago that the average premium plan is a net loss for them due to the server costs)

    The way things have been going it's more likely that the AI-free version will be the upsold luxury

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