Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
arstechnica.com
Feature turned on by default bothers users who like to keep their files private

Edited the title to what the article has now.

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 years ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 years ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        3 years ago

        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…

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 years ago

      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!