[clnq]

This looks like it could be great. I use GPT-4 all the time, so a system-wide integration and especially assistant capabilities sound nice to me. And yet I cannot make myself excited for this.

I can't get past the feeling that Windows Copilot will be used in slimy anti-privacy ways. I am somehow very sceptical that it will only use the screen's context as context for the user's queries. Probably because many new Windows 11 features have been anti-consumer, and Microsoft have been consistent at building this kind of reputation for years. It has numbed all of my excitement for anything Microsoft does.

[TeMPOraL]

Continuing the justified, if cynical take, in the near-term I'd worry less about privacy, and more about ads. Microsoft has a track record of putting overt and covert advertising directly into the OS. With deep system-wide integration and awareness of commercial applications, how long it'll take before Windows Copilot turns into a sneaky salesman, preferentially suggesting commercial tools and solutions of the highest bidders, while Microsoft gulps up a firehose of money coming from approximately every company of the planet paying to slot themselves into model fine-tuning?