Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

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Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
arstechnica.com

Edited the title to what the article has now.

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Holy hell guys, did you all just read the headline and run to the comment section?

  • enabled by default means you can see the feature and interact with it if you choose to do so

  • when you interact with it, it explains it needs to send this file to OpenAI. Of course it does, that's how it knows what you're asking of it. You are prompted to choose to use this feature

  • if you choose not to interact with it, nothing has changed, nothing has been sent anywhere

  • if you really don't want to look at it anymore you can turn it off, which is nice. A lot of companies drop stuff like this and you're stuck with it whether you like it or not

I, for one, have been trained by corporations and news agencies to react impulsively and without any deeper consideration for decades now.

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What? You expect people to actually read articles instead of jumping to conclusions based solely on the headlines? Outrageous

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Me, an intellectual, basing myself solely on the most legit looking comment instead of reading the article.

when you interact with it, it explains it needs to send this file to OpenAI

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The more I read this community the more I think it's populated mainly by children and pearl-clutching conspiracy theorists.

You're silly if you think this place is better than reddit.

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