gaming copilot privacy

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has landed in the crosshairs of the PC gaming community — not for a gameplay bug, but for questions about when, how, and whether it captures screenshots and on‑screen text and what happens to that data afterwards. Background / Overview Gaming Copilot is Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot—an AI assistant surfaced inside the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar—has been quietly taking screenshots of gameplay, running optical character recognition (OCR) on what’s visible, and (unless users opt out) transmitting extracted text and images back to Microsoft, a practice...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the Copilot-branded, in‑overlay AI assistant Microsoft shipped into the Windows 11 Game Bar — has been observed sending gameplay screenshots and on‑screen text to Microsoft for use in model training unless users explicitly turn off a set of privacy toggles, a...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the in‑game Copilot that lives in the Windows 11 Game Bar — is taking screenshots, extracting on‑screen text, and (unless you opt out) funneling that data into Microsoft’s model‑training pipeline, with the feature’s “Model training on text” toggle reportedly enabled...