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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Weird, I can’t find the setting in settings…

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Same. I bet Dropbox is running damage control on it.

Article said this news already hit other social media platforms.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

This is false. Read the article.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

Read the article. You are mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Same, it's not in my settings anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Pinned comment on original article says:

Didn't see it mentioned in the article, but per the linked FAQ it says the alpha AI applies to:

In countries with the preferred language set to English.

Excluding Canada, the UK (United Kingdom), and countries within the EEA (European Economic Area).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

They set it for me in Canada, so they are lying there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hmm. I’m in the US. But I maybe I didn’t tell Dropbox I prefer English back when I signed up nearly 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does Canada have a GDPR equivalent?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Closest I can think of is "FOIPP" (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy) in Alberta at least (not sure if the rest of the country has equivalents). But that's mostly things like "you can't share this confidential email with someone else without my permission" kind of thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There is no GDPR issue here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Enabled by default but can't be disabled...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I found it under "Third-party AI" on the web portal settings. It was enabled for me, I'm in the US.