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Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

Copilot is going to want 50 gigs on YOUR computer's hard drive to store snapshots. MS also wants you to buy dedicated AI hardware to run a few of their apps. They're going to steal your computer's storage and processing resources to create a worldwide AI and surveillance network.

No thanks. I finally switched to Linux. Microsoft can become Skynet without my help.