this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
91 points (94.2% liked)

Technology

34894 readers
663 users here now

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.


Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.


Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

seeing as copilot says at the start of every conversation that it will be recorded, not to mention their massive (non)privacy policy and terms of use, this isn't really news. this is just a fact

alternate headline: company looks at data they tell you they will monitor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Other alternate headline: Pawtucket man joins 14 others in U.S. who evidently care about what is being done with their data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

In this case its actually a lot of people.

In particular, clients really give a shit if you let their NDA signed proprietary info get leaked out to arbitrary third parties.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only way Microsoft or OpenAI would know this would be to spy on chatbot sessions. I’m sure the terms of service—if I bothered to read them—gives them that permission.

Well there's your problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Narrator: It does

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Lol that wasn't just expected. That was obvious

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

microshit is also spying on users who don't use its AI tools

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

** TEAMS **

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Um, no shit?
Seriously, Microsoft is running offering a service, for free, which uses considerable amounts of processing power. And people didn't think that everything they typed in was being logged, catalog, dissected and used for any possible purpose to make money?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

20 years ago a webmaster/software engineer once told me some interesting advice:

"If you didn't pay for the product, you are the product.

True for anything that isn't self hosted FOSS...

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

It would have been bizarre if they weren't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Last 4 words of that headline are a bit redundant

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

Last 6 honestly.

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

I was expecting something a bit more substantial than the equivalent of a tweet.

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

And in other obvious news, earth is getting hot and sun is yellow to deep orange. Back to you Diane.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Water still gets people wet, scientists baffled.

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

At least local LLMs are getting better

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

Nearly every single major tech company will monitor and record every single interaction you have with any of their services and products now. Just do a Google data takeout and see just what kind of data they keep on you.

This is the norm now and everyone should be aware of this and expect it and more of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it really spying at this point? I feel like everyone knows big tech is going to exploit your data as much as they can.

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

It's also a stretch to call something spying when they tell you they are going to do it.

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

Also, everyone else

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Waiting on our useless government to regulate privacy rights

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

Yeah they will regulate your ability to use privacy software haha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Say it ain't so

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