Devils advocate/utopia hypothetical-
In a vacuum, where you could be personally guaranteed this data remains on device and you the user had complete control and ownership, I can see how this could be useful.
But I would never allow a third party that sort of access, full stop
On linux you could easily do it, by running a script every n minutes that takes a screenshot and pipes it to an ai and then stores it wherever you want (including a local NAS)
With some extra effort you could tie it into the DE/WM and take a screenshot when a new app is opened or on focus switch or virtual desktop change or whatever and then slow down the periodic ones - so you don’t end up making 3000 screenshots of the same long gaming session. Or just constantly log the currently running processes as well to give the ai additional context.
There are so many cool opportunities with this. I hope somebody makes something cool and useful with it for Linux, that runs completely locally. You could then ask your computer “Hey, what video did I watch about godot a week ago, it had something with tilesets in it and I was coding alongside it”. Or "how many hours have I been working on that project for in the last 2 weeks?’
Or "how many hours have I been working on that project for in the last 2 weeks?’
I highly doubt current AI models are capable of figuring out which bit of work you do is related to which project.
It would not work for certain cases, you’re right, like stuff with many differnelty names documents or doing research in the browser.
But for what I had in mind - I’ve checked and on my setup the projects name is in the apps window decoration, in the cli when I do the commits, in the directory view sidebar, in the OS taskbar etc.
It should be pretty straight forward to figure out from a screenshot, even when the app is not in the foreground.
AIs have been capable of doing this for ages already.
It just falls into the set of useful stuff that LLMs trained as chatbots suck at because they had the useless goal of convincing people they are smart.
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Yes. If it was an opt-in feature and we knew beyond all doubt that it was stored locally-only, and for the user only, it could be a useful feature for some folks. Unfortunately, Microsoft has a long history of doing stupid and/or evil shit ‘for’ the user, with the attitude of ‘Clippy knows best’.
I mean sure but if you get hacked (which will eventually happen to someone if this is rolled out) just having the information stored in the first place becomes a risk. So I think it is better to not have it in the first place.
With this attitude there would be no progress ever.
I guess my question is progress towards what? I mean no one’s gonna stop you its your own computer do what you want.
For me though it just isn’t worth the risk.
Next they will be using your web cam to take pictures of you because … reasons. Then they will turn on your mic and record so that if you verbalize thoughts that don’t make it to your computer screen you can recall those too. Where does it end? I don’t want to know.
Don’t watch your weird porn collection on Windows, got it.
“But I have to use Office” / “I want to play league”, and people won’t care 🤷
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I doubt many people will be willing to de-bloat their WIndows install, because there is a lot of overlap between the type of person that would be willing to go through all the hurdles of de-bloating, and the type of person that is already on Linux.
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Sorry I’m confused how do I get to online play games like LOL if there is no internet?
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Thanks, I hate it. Welcome new linux users.
But it’s perfectly safe you guys. It would take a completely run of the mill virus from literally anywhere to get this data remotely. What are the chances?!
I don’t think this is really meant to be a memory function. From this function an incredible dataset of epic proportions will be created of user computer behaviours and how certain software is used. Openai will then get metadata to train ai that will be able to use any software and do anything on a computer and understand and mimic all possible stuff. I don’t think they will literally sell the data, but in some way this will be used to train ai, probably with metadata of it. Honestly I don’t see a big deal. I guess it has to be like that. I think it would be fair to make all ai opensource since it’s trained on everyone, but for sure that’s not going to happen. But I prefer to have it than not.
Expert pornhub AI… Would it jerk itself ?
Perhaps it will already know which kink you want before you even do. 🤣