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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by farcaster to c/technology
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[–] radix 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not in any of the articles, but in dropbox forums:

The Third-Party AI features are not available to everyone yet. The features are in alpha and are only available to customers on Dropbox Professional, Essentials, Business, Business Plus, and some customers on Dropbox Standard and Advanced.

If you're on a Basic, Plus or Family account, or you're part of one of the other groups that don't yet have access, the Third-Party AI features won't be available to you.

[–] paraphrand 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, so we have to just keep thinking about it and checking in to turn it off. Great way to combat a wave of people opting out.

[–] cyd 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the time it appears, it will have been "on" for some nonzero duration before you switch it off, so I guess they could already have irreversibly vacuumed up your existing data...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is false. Read the article.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yikes.

Prayers to all the companies using Dropbox as cloud storage.

Your intellectual property and private docs is now given to AI! Haha y'all are so fucked!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Read the article. You are mistaken.