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Presumably to minimize exposure while they add the announced security band-aids?
So... while I have you guys here, how do we feel about iOS having just announced basically the same feature? We angy about that one too or nah?
I mean, joking aside, I'm genuinely curious about what the reaction is going to be. On paper it's a very similar concept, but it feels like routing it through Siri and not surfacing the stored data will legitimately kill some of the creepy factor even if what's happening behind the scenes is very similar.
Apple didn’t announce anything even close to Recall. Apples AI directly accesses data it doesn’t save an unencrypted screenshot every 3 seconds.
Well, presumably neither does the Windows version they'll ship, according to them. But it IS supposed to record all activity on the background. I don't know that it's doing OCR, but presumably that's because they don't have to, since they control more of the ecosystem. From how it was described it's closer to Timeline, where it's logging all activities you take on the device and then uses an AI search to parse them and identify them. If it can find a picture you were watching on a specific time range by its content it must be logging with enough detail to know what's on the screen at all times. And unlike MS they are not committing to not sending the data over to server, although they are comitting to not storing it.
But hey, this is a good case of them hiding just what they are pulling helping them make it sound less creepy even though it really isn't. This is the kind of reasoning I was wondering about. As I said above, it'll be interesting to see how sticky this framing is.