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My CoPilot (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Today I was "talking" to copilot asking about how to tackle a certain issue. The fucking thing replied with my manager and his manager's NAMES telling me to reach out to them. Of course I was aware that Copilot's primary function is not as an AI assistant but as a surveillance tool, but working in the EU, this still surprised me a lot.

That said, under the protections the EU affords me, I will absolutely continue to use Copilot for the most inane possible tasks. I know that they know, but they can't act on it without breaking GDPR.

Your move, corporation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I didnt get it. Your manager replied instead of if?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

No, the AI advised me to contact my direct superior and his superior, but mentioned their names.

I have never provided it with this information, so that means it has a lot more access to our information than is officially known. Technically we aren't even supposed to input anything that could possibly be identifying, again for GDPR purposes, so I have no idea where Copilot got the information from.

I assume that MS lets companies tailor their instance of Copilot to a certain degree and maybe it was fed an organigram of the entire company, but AFAIK this is already not allowed under current legislation. Or maybe it is and I'm just a modern luddite.

Regardless, I'll be even more careful about what I use Copilot for from this point forward.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@Kyrgizion @boredsquirrel I assume you"re using 365 version of Copilot wich can access Active Directory data which if they're correctly setup contains a supervisor field