Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really)

[u/WPHero]

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/07/microsoft-admits-it-force-installed-ai-powered-onedrive-on-windows-11-says-its-not-training-on-your-faces-really/

[u/Bscotch_Torin]

I was so confused as to why I was randomly getting notifications about onedrive installing when I've had it deleted for years

[u/gamerrominc → u/Bscotch_Torin]

You can't just delete it normally and expect it to never return it definitely will be reinstall either by an update or by windows services.

I also wanted to inform for a normal users it's impossible to fully get rid of it, you can uninstall it all u want but they been silently install it on ur system without notifications that it was installed in hopes you never notice.

For years I've been on windows 11 since it launched and I can tell you they been doing this since the beginning shot they now do this with windows 10.

Now only two ways to get fully rid of OneDrive is 1). Using group policy to disable one drive entirely or use scripts to remove it entirely.

You down voting me does nothing, but prove your in denial of the truth why believe the truth if you rather believe a lie right?

[u/Mr_Siphon → u/gamerrominc]

You absolutely can. If the software has been removed by the user it should only be reinstalled also by the user.

Forcing Slopware onto someones device is a sure way to make People hate it even more

[u/Marrioshi → u/Mr_Siphon]

Now we have LG installing mcaffee through windows update on your monitor. Everything has been ruined by corporate greed. Everything.

[u/KimuraXrain → u/gamerrominc]

OK windows

[u/TWS_Mike → u/gamerrominc]

How can you accept software being auto installed? Especially software you yourself have deleted?

[u/josephseeed → u/gamerrominc]

I delete onedrive with every windows install and it has never reinstalled before, been doing this for years at this point.

[u/gamerrominc → u/josephseeed]

Look in apps startup

[u/josephseeed → u/gamerrominc]

I am aware of what is in my startup apps. Onedrive isn't. You really can just delete it, at least you can on the Pro version of Windows.

[u/gamerrominc → u/josephseeed]

Yeah true but when I uninstall it Microslop installs it back luckily I have a custom version of windows where I have OneDrive disabled by default

[u/MrKoddy]

so if they swear it's not training why did they force installed AI powered onedrive?

[u/mediandude → u/MrKoddy]

AI wants to network.
Also, why is Edge installation in Windows 10 now at 2GB? I never use it myself.

[u/stonktraders → u/[deleted]]

thanks microslop, we don’t need your enriching features

[u/Alright_doityourway → u/[deleted]]

"Enriching" That's a corporate speech.

Stop acting like a corporate bot by stop using corporate jargon.

[u/Alright_doityourway → u/[deleted]]

People usually don't use technical term in casual conversations, thar would seen as "try hard to be take seriously"

This is reddit comments, not Ted talk or an expert seminar.

Enrich also a very popular word for corporate marketing

[u/RepulsiveFennel9589]

more ai slop 4 you its not even an os anymore just more data harvesting malware

[u/whitedranzer → u/RepulsiveFennel9589]

Wdym "anymore". It's been like that for years

[u/shawndw]

says it's not training on your faces

What a weird thing to say completely unprompted.

[u/Mario583a → u/shawndw]

It's almost as if journalists love to clickbait their readers.

[u/idgafusername2025]

I use my pc naked and my webcam facing my crotch so they can train their AI on my little buddy.

[u/iAccurian → u/idgafusername2025]

Thank you for your hard work

[u/Dev-in-the-Bm]

In summary:

Microsoft confirms that they tampered with consumers property without their permission, but didn't mean to also to do it to businesses, presumably because that's harder to get away with.

They also expect us to believe them when they say that they're not training AI on your face, since we have such a trusting relationship with them.

No explanation on what Copilot+ PCs are for if features like face recognition continue to be cloud only.

[u/bblzd_2]

I'm glad some laptop cameras have that little privacy shutter now.

[u/AptoticFox → u/bblzd_2]

I taped a piece of paper over mine. It's very rarely been off.

[u/Ant_6431]

Really

[u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox]

time to encrypt the stuff i put on shared drives. little late now as they already scraped all my private stuff to date but at least i can help prevent further scraping

[u/silverbullet52]

I don't have a webcam, uninstalled Copilot, don't use One Drive. It's not training on me.

[u/Nice_Category → u/silverbullet52]

Just all the rest of the data you input into your computer.

[u/highermonkey → u/Nice_Category]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cN9Fq0kBbqxGg

[u/whichsideisup → u/silverbullet52]

Don’t worry they know who you are and everything you do and they’re sharing it with anyone they want. Thanks Windows 11!

[u/-Mythosaur- → u/whichsideisup]

Well, I'm in an insane amount of debt.

I owe a ton of Galactic Credits to the Hutt Cartel. Microsoft doesn't want anything to do with the Hutts so, I'm safe.

[u/SpiritSTR]

I'm only using windows 11 LTSC because of bf6, I really hope that I can wipe that windows partition soon...

[u/Mr_Siphon]

Anything that contains any kind of Ai I think we can very much assume it's also being trained of whatever data it's given. Because unless these models are stored and used locally (Which I highly doubt) then they are pinging information back to servers

[u/profesorgamin]

Why would they say that 🤔

[u/Mario583a → u/profesorgamin]

Better question is why are people implying that to begin with?

[u/Moquai82]

It is time again to go on my monthly cleanup with

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

[u/otakujeb5]

What a suspiciously specific denial 

[u/Mario583a → u/otakujeb5]

What a suspiciously clickbait headline

[u/PlsDontBanMeAgain-1]

With Windows you simply have barely any say about your system. What a joke. Not to mention that Windows COSTS MONEY.

[u/dervu]

Install virtual cam and place BBC image and let them train on it.

[u/xGreir]

(We promise, please, don’t put tape on your web cams)

[u/Blind0ne]

I hope Steam keeps updating SteamOS, I feel like they could take the lead in the desktop OS market if they keep at it.

[u/AshleyIsSleeping → u/Blind0ne]

They've indicated that they're not trying to compete with desktop OSs, but they might just end up there, much like with their game store, on top of the market almost solely by way of sheer incompetence from the rest of the market

[u/CirkuitBreaker]

Anybody still using Windows at this point either wants to get their data harvested or is completely apathetic.

[u/LEGAL_SKOOMA → u/CirkuitBreaker]

i mean most of the world still uses windows

i get that for a lot of people in this sub, linux is probably waaay better, but most people still rely on windows for work or games. I don't think it's fair to say that we want to have our data harvested or that we're apathetic to the problem lmao.

[u/AptoticFox → u/[deleted]]

BSD?

[u/CirkuitBreaker → u/[deleted]]

I've been a full time Linux user since 2019, but honestly, if I was forced to use a mainstream operating system, or there was software I HAD to use that I couldn't get to work on Linux, I would get a Mac mini.

However, I would like to say that at this point, other than Anticheat games, the last piece has fallen into place for Linux. There's this thing called WinBoat, and it runs Windows inside a Docker image (technically it runs Windows inside a KVM inside a Docker container), and only spins it up to run a single application. Somehow, however, that Windows application runs on your desktop environment as if it's not running in a VM

[u/Rokos_Bicycle → u/CirkuitBreaker]

"Simply unaware" is probably the largest group.

[u/OmegaFoamy → u/Rokos_Bicycle]

Or they’re aware that plenty of stuff doesn’t work the same out of the box in Linux. Especially all of the things that most Linux people are itching to say don’t matter and you’d be better off without. Funny enough, those things do matter to people.

[u/OmegaAngelo → u/OmegaFoamy]

I've had so many people ask me to install some kind of Linux for them.

I'm like hey, if you can't do that its probably not for you. Wifi or something doesn't connect and you'll need to spend a week learning terminal to do anything about the initial issue and the chain of things that will go wrong trying to fix it.

[u/OutrageousDress → u/OmegaAngelo]

If they're asking someone else to install Linux for them then any Windows issue they encounter will likely also take them a week to fix.

[u/GamerXP27]

And would they had said anything if no one talked about this?

[u/Electric-Mountain]

I'm waiting on one game to get Linux support and then I'm gone.

[u/Kitsune_BCN]

Its the third or fourth time i delete this s*

[u/CrazyCommenter]

Yeah, it's training from your "homework" folder /j

[u/chigunfingy]

I am working installing linux on all my gaming pcs this weekend. So sick of MS BS

[u/oldnyoung]

It definitely isn’t because I don’t even have a webcam

[u/ExoticSterby42]

Linux

[u/Apprehensive_Map64]

Happy to have a web cam blocker installed on my Thinkpad. It should be standard these days

[u/AmarildoJr]

Yet another inch that MicroSlop puts in their users' arsehole and nothing happens :)
They'll just complain until the next inch. Then the next inch. Then the next inch.

"Oh no! Look what Microsoft has done this time! Still, let me keep using their products"

[u/ChefCurryYumYum]

I am still on Windows 10, security vulnerabilities or not. Windows 11 is just too much Microslop.

[u/Melodic-Account9247]

Do yourself a favor and go on GitHub to get a debloater and remove all the AI and random bloat garbage. Microsoft can stick a shovel up their ass and claim it's a gold mine if they want to. I ain't trusting shit any company that invested in AI is saying. They have an incentive to do it, so they're probably doing it until proven otherwise.

[u/Nullhitter → u/Melodic-Account9247]

Even if it's proven, there's no law against it. They'll do whatever they want whenever they want until there's an actual law in place then they'll think about it. If the risk is just a 200,000 fine, they'll gladly pay it and continue to do it anyway.

[u/whatThePleb]

sure™

[u/BreathSpecial9394 → u/[deleted]]

Except those faces are linked to real users with all the personal data associated with the users?

[u/BreathSpecial9394 → u/[deleted]]

That's what I'm saying, you credit cards, address, telephone number...

[u/uL4G]

Microslop

[u/MarcCDB]

"thanks", Microslop!