Microsoft's Recall, the new local AI that screenshots everything you do and runs through a local AI to allow you to go back in time, is pretty cool.
I just don't trust Microsoft to keep it local.
But if it was opensource...
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Why do they justify it not being open source? To retain a competitive advantage? #asknostr
I wouldn’t use it honestly. Why would i want my Os to take a screenshot.
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One potential danger is that the “local” AI records all actions and when it comes across something of interest it phones home with an obfuscated payload.
These things can be trained to return a single plaintext vector that encodes what actions you took and then makes you a target. Unless you have the proper decoder network you won’t be able to decipher it. Doing it this way allows them to ship everything in just model weights.
Absolutely. The repo of that OSS project will be a massive target for malicious code that does this in a very sly way.
On top of that, if you have this running and someone gets access to your machine, it’s game over. They’ll have literally everything you do.
Could be a good tradeoff for some people in some comoanies as their "work computer" if strictly used for that.
The good old desktop sitting in the office running just Word, Excel, Outlook, not coming across any PII or sensitive data.
It can't be open source because microsuck will never allow you to install it yourself
So they may make some code open source but the delivery will always be closed to scrutiny so you'll never know what is actually installed during updates
Even if really keeps this sensitive data locally.. Most normies have poor opsec, this data will get leaked eventually.
And even of Microzuck say they keep it locally... Who knows? It's trust me bro proprietary tech, just like iOS.