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Sabrinas
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I'm sure you've heard of Windows's new Recall feature by now, but for completeness's sake, this is what it is:

Search across time to find the content you need. Then, re-engage with it. With Recall, you have an explorable timeline of your PC’s past. Just describe how you remember it and Recall will retrieve the moment you saw it. Any photo, link, or message can be a fresh point to continue from. As you use your PC, Recall takes snapshots of your screen. Snapshots are taken every five seconds while content on the screen is different from the previous snapshot. Your snapshots are then locally stored and locally analyzed on your PC. Recall’s analysis allows you to search for content, including both images and text, using natural language. Trying to remember the name of the Korean restaurant your friend Alice mentioned? Just ask Recall and it retrieves both text and visual matches for your search, automatically sorted by how closely the results match your search. Recall can even take you back to the exact location of the item you saw.

As of 2024, this is a feature that is going to be exclusive to "Copilot+ PCs", a new kind of special PC that Microsoft will be selling, that come with ARM processors and special NPUs, chips that enhance the devices neural network processing power. So this won't, as I've seen some posts suggest, come auto-enabled on your Windows PC within the next months. Yet.

This feature will:

  • Take a screenshot of everything you're doing on your PC
  • Feed it into an image processing neural network
  • Make the information gained from it available to you via natural language processing.

Let's say on Tuesday you visited a website that showed an image of a brown leather bag (example Microsoft used) but didn't use the words "brown leather bag" anywhere on the page. Windows Recall will have taken a photo of you visiting the website and added it to your neural network. Then, you can perform a natural-language search for "brown leather bag", and the feature will be able to tell you which website it was that you were visiting, since it has processed that image you saw and categorized it accordingly.

Microsoft assures that your data is stored locally, and not being uploaded to their servers.

To the untrained eye - and the trained eye - this looks like a baked-in keylogger. A spyware coming to you from Microsoft themselves - because it is. But what is actually the genuine purpose of it? Who would even need such a thing to exist on their computer?

Why would Microsoft make this?

Because like all capitalist companies, Microsoft needs to uphold the mirage of infinite growth in front of its shareholders. It's not enough to completely dominate several markets, or have a user base in the billions for some of your products. You need your business to constantly grow. Now when you're a monopoly and everybody who wants or has a use for your product already has it, this represents challenges. At that point you can:

  • Artifically create demand for things that people don't actually need. Make things prematurely obsolete, to force them to upgrade. Or manipulate people psychologically to make them "want" a thing against their self-interest, like with artifical scarcity. Use your acquired vendor lock-in to force people to continue to give you money as you make your old products obsolete.

  • Extract more and more value from the customers you already have. Raise the prices. Bombard them with more ads. Steal more of their data to sell to data brokers.

Neural network technology is the best of everything: shareholders are smitten by the technology; it requires more expensive hardware that forces users to upgrade if they want to use it; and the model you trained by user data becomes very valuable to sell to people.

Make no mistake: when a company like Microsoft makes a neural network computer, they do it with the intention of profiting from the improvement to their neural network weights from the data you feed into it. Sure, Microsoft promises to keep the screenshots it takes locally on your machine. But their entire profit model is going to eventually make you share the neural network weights, it's gonna let you sync them through your Microsoft account to your other Copilot+ enabled PCs. Microsoft getting those improvements to its model is the point of them offering that service to you.

It doesn't matter whether you trust Microsoft in their promise to not send your data back upstream. Sure, they'll not get the literal pixels from you. They'll just get mangled in the neuron weights and some information they stole from everything you do, including everything you create, you write, you draw, everything that is you on your computer, is going to go back into that Frankenstein's monster of a statistical model. The plagiarism machine.

And the good thing is, they don't even need to do it immediately either. That model you train locally on your PC is gonna accumulate value for them until they eventually pull the trigger and let you check that box to "help improve Windows Recall with anonymized user data". And auto-select it for you.

The malware angle

But Microsoft aren't the only ones who will benefit. Any malware that will ever befall your PC will also have access to it. I see a lot of misunderstanding of the way "encryption" works in this context. Encrypting data on your hard drive protects you from the threat model of somebody stealing your physical laptop while it's powered down. As soon as you're logged in and you have put in your credentials to decrypt the data because you want to have a look at it, malware on your PC is going to have access to that data, too. A locked door doesn't work against attackers from inside the house.

Microsoft even does the malware attackers a huge favour by preprocessing the data so they don't need to transfer 50GB of raw data and process it using their own compute power. It's all there for the taking.

So what do I gain?

Funny you think that this product you shelled out extra money for would exist for your own benefit. In the best-case scenario for Microsoft, if you find this feature that nobody asked for and nobody for clamouring for really useful and start to depend on it for your daily workflow, then it's one more thing you can pile on the long list of stuff why you just can't switch to Linux. You sure all hell aren't going to gonna get to export that training data to a model by a different vendor if you decide Copilot+ PCs are not the best offer on the market for this kind of service anymore. Just one more thing to pile on Microsoft's vendor lock in for you in the end.


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