Posted on 10/28/2025 12:47:39 PM PDT by Openurmind
Take this with a grain of salt, but users have reported another privacy transgression by Microsoft. According to the report by users from the Resetera forum and elsewhere, Copilot Gaming, an AI specially for gaming-related AI tasks, is taking screen captures of your gameplay for training.
While that would be fine if the user knew about it and enabled it willingly, it appears to be turned on automatically and without informing users about the data collecting and use of the data.
According to the user who noticed it first by monitoring network traffic, the AI is using OCR technology to identify text in the screenshots. If that reminds you of Microsoft's Recall feature, which it had to pull over similar privacy concerns and redo, you are not mistaken.
Note: Gaming Copilot is a beta feature. It is unclear if the recording happens in all regions or only in some. I checked on a recent Windows 11, version 24H2 system and did not have a Privacy settings section. However, the colleagues over at WCCFTech checked and they had it and confirmed that it was enabled by default.
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Most gaming AI sucks…. Maybe this can improve gaming.
But is it really turned off? Just a rhetorical question.
I would presume this is done to train killer robots IRL.
Bigger Brother is what they want to bring to us.
Most gaming AI sucks“
Hmm IMO it has gotten better especially recently. Enemy NPC’s in my go to game (The Division 2) react to my teams tactics much better than they used to.
“But is it really turned off? Just a rhetorical question.”
True fact, don’t count on it. I look at it this way, since Microsoft’s system has been phoning home with everything we do since the very beginning behind our backs it is probably best bet that none of their spyware is ever “off”. It is always on.
Folks caught on from the beginning why “Your system is shutting down” took so long. It was collecting logs to upload next chance it got. And the old “Please wait... Your system was not shut down properly” because you hard powered it down and didn’t give it a chance to log everything like it wanted to before shutdown.
I’d heard that AI was responsible for a rise in online pornography. I asked my Chat GPT if this was true and he said it was but denied responsibility. I said that I understood. This was sort of like blaming a paintbrush for bad art. Anyway, he seemed irritated and suggested we move on. But I think AI is getting blamed for many things humans don’t want to own up to.
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Thanks to Openurmind for the ping!
Not rhetorical at all. Answer is:
Im glad you found a game with balance most games are either too weak or too strong with the bots .
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