TalonJul 11
Did you know that Microsoft just turns Copilot writing assist on for webpages in Microsoft Edge?
So like, if you type in edit boxes, it just... gets sent to Microsoft? Straight up?
And this is enabled by default?
So first, what the actual hell? Second, why is nobody talking about this? How the hell is right now the first time I find out about this?
Show threadTalonJul 11
Like you type in an edit box and it's like oh hey let me auto complete that for you. In any random edit box. I can't. What the fuck?
Show threadTalonJul 11
How the fuck is this opt out? Dude what the actual shit? No. Just... what?
Show threadTalonJul 11
Everytime I think it can't possibly get worse it just gets worse.
Show threadWinter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
@talon One reason why I stick to mac. But don't go on the negative. See if there isn't a way to disable that crap. Maybe a tweak or something. 🤗
Jul 11 at 8:36pmWeb
Show threadtasketJul 13
@tardis The fact that its on by default is the undeniable negative. And its unforgivable, too.
Show threadOliver D. ReithmaierJul 13

@tasket @tardis are your surprised? They did the same with copilot pcs, until someone discovered that it would also screenshot passwords etc.

They don't learn. They're lazy and just want to make as much cash as they can with minimal effort. Also there's no good legislation to enforce opt-in as de-facto standard for new features on bought and paid products. This would be a fight worth fighting.

Show threadtasketJul 16

@odr_k4tana @tardis I don't think MS is lazy. They built an AI email monitoring system and then made uploading all email data to their AI compulsory (or else they freeze updates to Outlook – the stick).

They are building a spying platform, possibly the most insidious one ever.

Show threadPsyhackologicalJul 14
@tardis @talon who said the Mac is safe in the future? But for now yeah.
Show threadMomoJul 14

@tardis
Next Windows update silently be like "Oh, this is disabled? Let me turn it on again quickly for the user! It's better that way..."

This is why I stopped using Windows and deleted my Facebook account 20 years ago: When shit suddenly started to automagically switching itself back on again. And nowadays they don't even hide it anymore: "Oh, so you disabled us to collect your data on all of your devices. Do you want to re-enable it? - Yes! / Ask me later."
@talon

Show threadWinter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺Jul 14
@momo @talon Bleh, yeah. Windows sucks, but I guess I do use it sometimes. Have 2 windows computers, sadly, for me.
Show threadMomoJul 14

@tardis
It's okay. My work computer runs Win11 and goes full copilot because my employee put "By happily and curiously adopting Copilot we archieve an productivity gain of 16%!" in our annual team targets.

I asked what the relevant productivity baseline value us (that we need to increase by 16%) and in what SI unit one measures productivity (is it Watts? Watts per hour?) How do you even measure productivity? I mean we need to know that so that we are able to tell when we archieved that KPI and since it's bonus relevant, this means a few thousand bucks for some of us...

The answer was: "Well, that team target is... more like a... work in progress... thingy..." which is management german legalese for "If you have copilot activated you automatically scored that target by 100%". So... here we are.
@talon

Show threadWinter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺Jul 14
@momo @talon Uh, I am so glad we don't use that... At least not our department. Although the company does provide a gpt model for us to use, but I haven't really used it. Don't fancy AI writing my reports. LOL
Show threadMomoJul 14
@tardis
If you ever meet this specific number "16% increase in productivity", not 15.5% and not 17%... It comes straight from Microsofts Marketing powerpoint sheets. There is no technical proof behind it, it's just made up by marketing.
@talon