A week after Microsoft's Gaming Copilot feature stirred up controversy, the company has released a public statement about the AI tool addressing the backlash.

On Wednesday (Oct. 22), a member of the gaming forum ResetEra found that the new Gaming Copilot AI was sending screenshots and captures of everything they played to Microsoft. Allegedly, this data is being used to train the company's AI models.

"This installed automatically on my PC, and watching the network traffic I realized it was automatically sending everything I was doing to Microsoft," RedbullCola said in their ResetEra post. “I checked the settings, and by default, it’s set to train on text seen on the screen — it screenshots everything, and OCRs text from in-game and sends it to MS. MS then uses what you’re doing to train

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