Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
arstechnica.com
Feature turned on by default bothers users who like to keep their files private

Edited the title to what the article has now.

    • treefrog@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

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

      Article said this news already hit other social media platforms.

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          7 months ago

          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…

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        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!

    • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      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).

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 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.

        • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 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.

    • time_fo_that@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

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