Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer
kautau@lemmy.world 7 hours agoJust because the UI exists in file explorer doesn’t mean the data processing is happening locally. It’s likely happening on MS’s cloud. Maybe some actions happening locally on new machines with NPU chips
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I want to believe you, but I’ve been burned before.
kautau@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m not sure what you mean. I’m saying that this work is almost for sure being sent to Microsoft’s servers, which is certainly a bad thing. That is burning anyone who uses it
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I thought you meant they wouldn’t be processing your files locally. You’re saying they’re taking all of your local files and sending them to the cloud though?
kautau@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Likely in pretty much every case they are taking files that you perform an AI function on and uploading them to their cloud.
I said the few exceptions might be very low effort work that could run on the new NPU chips coming with some PCs. But I doubt they would event do that because it’s passing up the opportunity to use consumer data to train their models.
So yes, if you use an AI feature, MS is taking your file(s) and training it’s models on it