Microsoft this week moved to clarify a growing privacy storm around Gaming Copilot — the new AI assistant built into the Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11 — saying that screenshots are only captured when users are actively interacting with the feature, and that those screenshots are not used to train...
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...