The Rewind website states:
“No cloud integration required
It all just works automatically. No need to connect to a bunch of different services like Gmail, Dropbox, or Slack.”
“[We collect:] Information Generated by OpenAI.
As part of Rewind AI’s integration with OpenAI, we may also collect the outputs generated by OpenAI, such as the audio transcription summaries of your audio recordings and any other data generated by the OpenAI integration”
So “no cloud integration is required”, but my audio is shared with OpenAI !?
Which is it please?
I want to trust Rewind because it looks great, but these incongruities in explaining what is happing with user data make me hesitate.
Audio is locally transcribed on your machine. And you have full control over when you want to record audio (ie, only have it turn on with meetings), and when it comes to screen capture Rewind can exclude apps you select (such as 1Password, incognito windows, etc)
All that being said, we are also working on letting you toggle to using a local LLM. Our CEO @dsiroker did a demo of our Windows app with Llama 2 on stage with Intel's CEO at their recent conference: https://twitter.com/dsiroker/status/1704188923336085657
That’s the whole point of the product right is to ask for what’s in the “history”? Otherwise is just a screen recording app that I can activate with cmd shift 5.
But reading the details in the official Privacy Policy at https://www.rewind.ai/privacy says:
“[We collect:] Information Generated by OpenAI. As part of Rewind AI’s integration with OpenAI, we may also collect the outputs generated by OpenAI, such as the audio transcription summaries of your audio recordings and any other data generated by the OpenAI integration”
So “no cloud integration is required”, but my audio is shared with OpenAI !?
While at https://www.rewind.ai/privacy-first it says: “What happens when you search in Rewind? All recording data stays local.”
Which is it please? I want to trust Rewind because it looks great, but these incongruities in explaining what is happing with user data make me hesitate.