Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

Re:Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a... by scosman on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:07PM (#45554823)

Yeah exactly. Some people have 100k photo collections. The cost of scanning isn’t trivial.

They should limit the number of times you turn it on, not off. Some PM probably overthought it and insisted you need to tell people about the limit before turning it off and ended up with this awkward language.

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Re:Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a... by littlestymaar on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:45AM (#45557145)

> Yeah exactly. Some people have 100k photo collections. The cost of scanning isn’t trivial.

Then you can guess Microsoft hopes to make even more money than it costs them running this feature.

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Re:Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a... by account42 on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:37AM (#45566144)

This is irrelevant to opting out, nobody is forcing MS to scan the photos in the first place.

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