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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Edited the title to what the article has now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ITT: not nearly enough people demanding that Dropbox execs go to prison for massive violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not nearly enough people have read the article and instead make rash decisions based on a misleading clickbait headline that has since been changed to "Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used "

Specifically asking the AI search tool to analyze a file for you kinda requires sending that file to OpenAI to be analyzed. And it even asks you if it's okay first.