TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.
sadreality ( @sadreality@kbin.social ) 17•8 months agoWhen did tech go from adding nice useful features to shoving shit up everyone’s ass without consent.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 3•8 months agoI don’t know, when did it? I installed this update on Windows 11 and there’s a simple toggle in the settings to turn off the Copilot button on the taskbar. And even when it’s not disabled, I just don’t use it when I don’t want it to do something. This thread - like many others on this topic - is full of weird histrionics over this.
sadreality ( @sadreality@kbin.social ) 11•8 months agoVery naive understanding of what it actually does.
If you are fine with being datamined by software and device you paid for, more power to you champ!
I am sure you got nothing to hide and you don’t do any crime haha
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 1•8 months agoIt’s basically a wrapper for Bing Chat. If anything I’m disappointed by how little it does. Possibly because I don’t have Microsoft Office, it has some integrations with that when doing searches through your data (this is a feature of Office rather than of Copilot, though). Do you have any sources indicating it’s doing more than that?
lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English3•8 months agoHave you checked the terms of use?
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 1•8 months agoYour question implies that you think there’s something specific in those terms of service that’s problematic. Care to share?
lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English3•8 months agoOP already told you, they datamine your stuff.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 1•8 months agoWhat specific part of the terms of service cover datamining? OP said “If you are fine with being datamined by software and device you paid for, more power to you champ!”, which is just a vague generic claim. If you’re going to say that the Terms of Service allows for it please actually quote the bit that does so. Otherwise this is just wild fearmongering.
lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English1•8 months agoLol how about you go look for it yourself, since you’re the one who’s gonna be using it. We’re trying to do you a favor by warning you, if you don’t care that’s fine, but we’re not going to handhold you through it.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 1•8 months agoYou brought it up. You either had some specific reason to think it was relevant or you’re just fearmongering.
Refusing to explain that reason hints pretty strongly at the latter.
regulatorg ( @regulatorg@kbin.social ) 13•8 months agoOf course they would backport telemetry upgrades
GasMaskedLunatic ( @GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•8 months agoMicrosoft is doing a really good job convincing me to switch to Linux. Hopefully soon that will be a realistic possibility for me. Fuck Microsoft.
thru_dangers_untold ( @thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.ml ) English7•8 months ago“More useful than Cortana” is the lowest of bars.
andruid ( @andruid@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months agoMore useful than the thing I know my heard people talking about disabling? Wow, what a time to be alive!
peanuts4life ( @peanuts4life@beehaw.org ) English6•8 months agoI am unimpressed with copilot on Windows 11. Privacy aside, It seems like a web wrapper for Bing ai, which is a performant chat bot, but isn’t anything special when you compare it to openai’s data analytics ai.
It wasn’t able to update PC settings or files, for example. Though, I only had 15 min with it.
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 2•8 months agoIndeed, this is my biggest complaint about Copilot - it doesn’t seem to do anything that I can’t easily do by just popping over to Bing. I’m hoping that it will see more updates in the near future.
peanuts4life ( @peanuts4life@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months agoTbh the grail for me would be if it could execute code in a persistent, local, virtualized environment. I’m sure that sort of product will come to Windows, but it can’t come soon enough for me.
auth ( @authed@lemmy.ml ) 6•8 months agoBing chat sensors it’s output so much
IDew ( @IDew@lemm.ee ) 5•8 months agoMy Ameliorated Windows won’t be affected >:)
NutWrench ( @NutWrench@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 months agoWhat the heck IS Copilot?
I hate articles that tell you, "Blorp is amazing! Blorp is coming out in 3 days! Everybody should have Blorp! Don’t miss out on Blorp!’