Sorry, Microsoft — I don’t want Copilot+ reading my DMs yet

Microsoft is kicking off a new era of PCs — the Copilot + era. It’s a new category of device designed and built around AI, and the key selling point of a Copilot + PC is the new Recall feature. I’m not quite on board with it yet, however.

It sounds great, but there’s an obvious privacy concern with Copilot+. It’s so obvious that Microsoft is already getting ahead of the conversation with multiple settings to control how Recall scans and stores your information. Even with the settings, I’m not ready to dive into the world of a Copilot+ PC.

It’s hard to forget the early days of Bing Chat, where a slight deviation in prompting could send the AI on a tirade. Even recently, specific inputs into Copilot will send it down a dark rabbit hole. Feed a Copilot+ PC some strange information, even unintentionally, and it might spit out some strange results.

Getting ahead of the narrative In Microsoft’s defense, it recognizes that there’s a privacy issue with Copilot+, even if everything happens on your device. I’m glad to see that there’s some control over what the models can and can’t interact with, as I imagine that will be an essential issue for early adopters.

None of the data for a Copilot+ PC is being sent to Microsoft, and the company says it won’t use that data to train AI models. Companies have been caught using unsuspecting users’ data to train AI models in the past, but Microsoft’s official stance now is that it won’t do that. Regardless, we still don’t know if there’s some amount of data that’s required for a Copilot+ PC, or if you really have as much control over the device as Microsoft suggests.

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