Microsoft spying on you with this new feature? Elon Musk says ‘like Black Mirror…’
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella was seen in a video talked about a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tool- a photographic memory feature called Recall that will “remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots”. The feature has been added to the PCs in addition to Copilot which was launched last year replacing Microsoft’s voice-assistant Cortana. In the video, Satya Nadella said, “It’s not keyword search, it’s semantic search over all your history. And it’s not just about any document. We can recreate moments from the past essentially.”
But Elon Musk is not a fan of the feature as he said that he will turn it “off”.
“This is a Black Mirror episode. Definitely turning this “feature” off,” the Tesla CEO said in his post on X (formerly Twitter)- referencing Netflix series ‘Black Mirror’ that focuses on the lives of individuals grappling with the effects of technology in their lives.
The tool was also criticised by other users on social media as one wrote, “Yeah, no thanks. Don’t need to pay Microsoft a monthly fee to spy on me” while another commented, “Bro they can’t even get searching via the start menu right and we’re supposed to believe this s*** will just work.”
A third remarked, “Remember back in the day where Windows would cache snapshots and they would fill the hard drive and crash everything and make it impossible to use the system?”
On Recall, Microsoft said, “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.”
