More like "Do not enable this feature" because if you understood it, you simply wouldn't. Or "uninstall this operating system". That'd be more accurate.
Waiting for my bank to warm me that their new and mandatory AI advisor might send my savings to a nigerian prince without my or the banks knowledge. Such transactions are not insured and all risk lies with the customer of course.
Now they say only enable it if you understand the security implications, but eventually they'll downplay the security implications and enable it by default.
"AI applications introduce novel security risks, such as cross-prompt injection (XPIA), where malicious content embedded in UI elements or documents can override agent instructions, leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation."
Exfiltrating data and installing malware are the tasks it was designed to do, the warning is that it might be done by someone other than Microsoft I guess.
I assure you that your grandma does not "understand the security implications". This is like handing out loaded guns to preschoolers and telling them not to shoot each other.
I was just thinking the other day how agentic AI is akin to letting an elderly person using a computer. You can tell it what to do, but you'll end up with it clicking the very first link in g••gle and downloading 3 viruses and ending up with 40 new unwanted and potentially malicious browser extensions.
If agentic AI is a security risk, why the hell is MS trying to force it in as an integral part of Windows, then? I mean, unless they want people to get malware....
Same with Google allowing literal malware to advertise themselves posing as legitimate apps that show above the actual app's website.
They even let ads spoof the display domain name to match the official website (and do no checks for whether they actually own the display domain despite literally having the infrastructure to do that in their SEO tools) while redirecting to a different domain when you click the ad.
John Hammond video: (also a good video to send to anyone who still thinks Macs "can't" get malware)
Even if this is genuine incompetence and not malice, they're so disgustingly incompetent that they don't deserve to exist just the same as if it was malice.
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At this rate we might finally see the year of the Linux desktop. I don't know anyone who likes Windows 11 it's been bad enough to convert even die-hard Windows fans to Linux
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I'll never enable it precisely because I understand the security and privacy implications. Windows would be a nice OS without all this crap, bloatware and services to "improve the user experience" and which nobody needs.
What a world we live in where not only does something like this happen, but that it's allowed to happen. Companies don't even get a slap on the wrist anymore, they can just do whatever they want now without any repercussions, that's what's really scary about this.
Yeah, but there is a big difference between you going to Google looking for Nvidia drivers and downloading them from nvidia.definitelynotmalware.me versus asking AI to download the Nvidia drivers and it pulling them from nvidia.definitelynotmalware.me without telling you.
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They even let ads spoof the display domain name to match the official website (and do no checks for whether they actually own the display domain despite literally having the infrastructure to do that in their SEO tools) while redirecting to a different domain when you click the ad.
John Hammond video: (also a good video to send to anyone who still thinks Macs "can't" get malware)
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