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 CMay on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:33AM (#45557396)

Both enabling and disabling incur a cost (because they delete the data, but then have to recreate it), but they wouldn't want to punish you for enabling it so it makes sense that the limitation is on the disabling side.

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Re:Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a... by imtringued on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:38AM (#45557434)

Then they should allow infinite opt outs as well.

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Re:Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a... by CMay on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:55AM (#45557541)

It's harder to find a reasonable use case to constantly opt-in and opt-out, incurring server side costs. Generally you either want it on or want it off. They do limit the cost of disabling it some, because they cache that data for 30 days, but that still means someone could toggle it ~11 times a year and incur those costs.

I don't know what they're seeing from their side, but I'm sure they have some customers that have truly massive photo collections. It wouldn't surprise me if they have multiple customers with over 40TB of photos in OneDrive.

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Re:Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a... by B-Con on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:59AM (#45577773)

They should always allow you to delete your remote data. The left switch thrown should always be able to be "off".

They can put a giant warming in front of the last "off" click or whatever, not it needs to be there.

This reeks of MS thinking very MS-centric and hoping they fortunately retain some users.

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