06-12-2024, 03:38 PM
I think one significant solution to this is simple: Disclosure.
I mean base-level, ground floor disclosure.
Microsoft offers up it's wares via a marketing effort. That means we rely on sales-staff and marketing media to determine what the product is.
What they never disclose is the fact that in order to use this product you must "agree" to their stated provisos... as if the "click" were your signature, and based upon that agreement, the operating system installed on your computer is rightfully theirs, not yours. You can't change it, you can't even labor to analyze it without risking a breach in the agreement.
So they add more and more abusive, intrusive, and controlling capabilities within it, and it's their "right" by agreement.
Co-Pilot, and all such interfaces operate to "collect" data. They offer what it can do for you... but never disclose what it does for them (Think: metadata.)
The internet was a noble idea, and those who live to exploit turned it into the avenue to make information about each individual person "a product." Copilot is just another one of their tools...
"Give them an inch... then take a mile."
I mean base-level, ground floor disclosure.
Microsoft offers up it's wares via a marketing effort. That means we rely on sales-staff and marketing media to determine what the product is.
What they never disclose is the fact that in order to use this product you must "agree" to their stated provisos... as if the "click" were your signature, and based upon that agreement, the operating system installed on your computer is rightfully theirs, not yours. You can't change it, you can't even labor to analyze it without risking a breach in the agreement.
So they add more and more abusive, intrusive, and controlling capabilities within it, and it's their "right" by agreement.
Co-Pilot, and all such interfaces operate to "collect" data. They offer what it can do for you... but never disclose what it does for them (Think: metadata.)
The internet was a noble idea, and those who live to exploit turned it into the avenue to make information about each individual person "a product." Copilot is just another one of their tools...
"Give them an inch... then take a mile."
