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Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by RIMR on Friday June 14, 2024 @05:37PM (#40685383)
It's not even only about surveillance. Microsoft also makes Github Copilot. Getting Recall onto developer machines gives them the opportunity to train their AI on how programmers actually program, rather than just using an LLM trained on code.

Eventually we'll have programmers with Recall activated by company policy on their PCs, actively training the AI models that will replace their labor.

That has to be part of the goal here. The full automation of software development. Think about how much money Microsoft would make if they did it, and how much they would save if they implemented it.

We need a new Luddite movement to protect the workers from all of this.

Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by skydhash on Friday June 14, 2024 @06:19PM (#40685679)
Typing is the least interesting part of programming. And most of the other doing parts have been automated already (compiling, testing, deploying,…) Most of my days are mostly spent reading, thinking, and waiting.
Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by hn_version_0023 on Friday June 14, 2024 @06:07PM (#40685592)
Hear! Hear!

I work in a massive data center. Manned by very few people. I often think about how many homes could be heated or cooled with the power used to prop up the internet.

It feels borderline criminal when there are homeless and hungry all over the world.