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I'm a multi decade Linux user but I'm mostly an advocate for people using the software they want to use be it Linux, Windows, whatever. I don't care what you use.

This is an indefensible nightmare, however. What the fuck.

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[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

My uncle runs IT for a big legal firm and this is such a headache for them. Lawyers are suddenly having confidential client data scraped automatically by windows to train their AI.

The IT team won't even be notified about it until someone asks if they can use the AI option in Notepad or Outlook or something then they have to go and manually block the connections across the whole network.

This is gonna be such a privacy and legal clusterfuck once someone figures out how to extract this training data

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

My employer’s IT department has to keep reminding people not to use any “AI” not developed in-house due to IP leak. They were successful in keeping Copilot out of the Office suite for a while, but now it’s wormed its way into it again.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Yep, it's a game of whack a mole. If it wasn't Microsoft doing this, it would be considered a major national security threat or published as one of the most successful data breaches in history.

Talking about it like that would reveal that AI is just a name for intellectual property and data theft at a societal scale though and since the entire economy is now floated by the hype...well that's not gonna happen

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