Elon Musk urges millions to switch-off controversial Windows 11 feature that takes screenshots on your PC

gbnews.com ^ | May 25, 2024 | Aaron Brown

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Tesla CEO compared incoming Recall feature to an episode of Black Mirror

• New Recall feature will be coming to Copilot+ PCs from June
• It takes screenshots of everything you do on-screen
• Snapshots are analysed by AI on-device so they can be searched
• Elon Musk has announced plans to disable the feature on his PC
• Privacy campaigners have also flagged concerns
• UK privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Recall

Elon Musk has criticised a controversial new AI feature coming to Windows 11 devices this summer. Known as Recall, it takes screenshots of everything on-screen so you can scroll back in time and resume work on anything from within the last month. The functionality will be exclusive to a range of new Copilot+ PCs.

Artificial Intelligence, powered by Microsoft's $10 billion partnership with OpenAI to licence its latest 'flirty' ChatGPT model, will analyse text and pictures in the screenshots — so you can search for phrases, people, animals, and landmarks to find what you're looking for, without knowing the name of a document or webpage.

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[aimhigh]

`The first Windows 11 preview build with Recall is expected to arrive in October.

[TChad]

Win 11 is nothing but a surveillance system for the government

It also excels at creating spinning circles. It's the "spinning circle" OS.

Keep waiting...

[Bikkuri]

You should look into Lutris (I use), Hero, Bottles, and Steam.
Very few games that don’t work using these.
(There are a few others too, but can’t remember the names off the top of my head.)
Steam uses their own version of WINE called Proton, which is very good.

[steve86]

“The automatic screenshots are to bypass encryption. It doesn’t matter what you encrypt in the pipeline if the Windows 11 Spyware takes pictures of it before it’s encrypted”

The screenshot isn’t necessary to evade encryption. On an Android phone, for example, GBoard can read and process anything you type into an encrypted app. Much more straightforward than screenshots + AI.

[T.B. Yoits]

The screenshot isn’t necessary to evade encryption. On an Android phone, for example, GBoard can read and process anything you type into an encrypted app.

What you type is only part of the equation. The Deep State wants to also capture mouse clicks and video.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I’m glad I’m still mostly operating on my Windows 7 computer and an old tablet that’s just for word processing and not connected to the internet. I have a new Windows 10 laptop, but it’s mostly for drawing in Photoshop. My old Word documents won’t open on it, because apparently my current ownership of MS Office wasn’t transferred to it.

I’ll have to find the hard copy I have and see if I can force it on there.

[MeanWestTexan]

Anytime the try that hard, it is bad.

Reminds me of the Covid shot

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[McGruff]

If I understand this right you have to buy one of these PCs to have this implemented.

[Openurmind]

“”Your snapshots are yours; they stay locally on your PC. You can delete individual snapshots, adjust and delete ranges of time in Settings, or pause at any point right from the icon in the System Tray on your Taskbar. You can also filter apps and websites from ever being saved. You are always in control with privacy you can trust.”

Then there is ABSOLUTELY no need for AI technology. Do we need AI to open and use our pictures folder now?

If it claims it is off is it really?

[NorthMountain]

Do Not Want.

And I can see it being a huge problem for corporate customers.

[Openurmind]

“Does anyone really believe that switching it off actually switches it off?”

Nope...

[NorthMountain]

If your Windows 11 PC does not meet the criteria, you’ll miss out

Yeah, and I'll "miss out" on all the benefits of the latest mRNA "booster" injection as well.

Not too afraid of "missing out".

[Openurmind]

“The automatic screenshots are to bypass encryption.”

Bingo...

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I do expect that there are people languishing in the DC gulag since J6, almost four years ago, who are rethinking your position.

These things are a shiny chain of bondage that most people can’t resist.

When this ancient forum no longer works, it’s “Adios!”

[Openurmind]

When they start prosecuting how many counts of violations are going to make a difference. Please stop telling everyone they should not even try to defend themselves and just take it in the rear. Only the government would tell us this...

[sasquatch]

The camera on this pc was covered with a bit of cardboard and a short length of electrical tape before it was powered up the first time.

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Elon Musk urges millions to switch-off controversial Windows 11 feature that takes screenshots on your PC , McGruff wrote:

If I understand this right you have to buy one of these PCs to have this implemented.

Maybe. I don't know if they would tell us if it was already live on computers. In the past 5 years, computers were sold with a 'Trusted Platform Unit' (TPU) which I believe is also invasive. But consumers are often unaware it's there because it was turned off by default. So there are instructions on how to turn on the TPU because newest updates of Windows 11 can't be installed on your machine without it. So some people running Windows 11 are going to discover they have that invasive TPU, and that they have to turn it on to update their machines. Others using Windows 11 will discover their computer does not have the TPU, and will have to buy a different computer if they want to keep using Windows 11.

Also - Amazon sold Kindles with features the public didn't know about. One had something to do with a newer antennae - the customer paid for the weaker wifi and wasn't aware their device had both, the better attenae turned off.  There was also an 'assistant' feature which could be turned on, or was already on. Features that let you use voice commands - to use those, you have to have a microphone on so the device can hear speech and respond. But again, these features weren't advertised with the product.

There's a chance you're correct - it's got to have the advanced computing. But I suspect older versions of that technology have been in play for years, with engineers looking at automated feedback and training their AI with live user data, until their technology was sufficiently developed to be 'worth' the bigger/better chip technology.

[Openurmind]

“The camera on this pc was covered with a bit of cardboard and a short length of electrical tape before it was powered up the first time.”

So folks understand... This is not about your camera. This is about taking pictures of all the webpages you are visiting using screen capture software to do it.

[dforest]

Where do I turn off this feature in windows 11?