With screen-aware AI the privacy question isn't just ""what does it see."" It's where what it sees goes.

When I think through whether I'd use an AI tool that reads my screen, I keep getting stuck on one specific question: does the screen content leave my machine? Screenshotting something and pasting it into a chat is something I already do regularly. The difference with a screen-reading tool is that the capture happens programmatically, which means data could theoretically be sent somewhere without me watching it happen. I'm not particularly paranoid. I use cloud tools for most things. But there's something about screen content specifically, it includes things I never made a conscious decision to share, that feels different from a file I deliberately uploaded. I've also wondered if the answer is just seeing exactly what gets captured before it goes anywhere. Some kind of preview step rather than trusting the policy description. Is local-only processing a hard requirement for you with this kind of tool, or would clear disclosures from a product you trust be enough?