by Sindisil on 6/5/24, 12:28 PM with 20 comments
by bityard on 6/5/24, 3:45 PM
AI does not really help me for the kind of work that I do, so this really didn't seem like it would affect me much. Except one day I open Outlook and there's this giant-ass honking big "Summarize this thread" bar that they added to Outlook. It's a full inch in height and full width, which means that it takes away valuable space needed by the message list and message pane. All for a single button. I would have preferred they fill that space with ads for Candy Crush, because at least then it would be doing something arguably useful!
Further, the company's legal team drafted a list of 11 things you CANNOT use Copilot for. I won't paste them here, but basically it amounts to not being able to use Copilot on anything you wouldn't share with the press or a competitor. I can't actually think of a single employee in the whole company who can follow these rules AND use Copilot effectively for their job. IT says that Microsoft enabled this for everyone using O365 and that they can't turn it off for individual users.
So basically I now have this fire-alarm sized button in the middle of the screen on my mail client that I must NEVER click.
by AlexandrB on 6/5/24, 1:16 PM
AI is just the latest iteration of these trends - now the vendor gets to record everything you put into their software and a text editor requires exotic new hardware so that the AI "copilot" can run and help you type every character.
by jtbayly on 6/5/24, 2:45 PM
It’s not just big tech. The government is also heavily depending on this creeping change in expectations.
Setting aside what it has been interpreted to mean legally, “unreasonable search and seizure” in English can either be taken to mean “searching without a reason” or “searching more than is normally expected.” Obviously the latter is how most people would read it.
In this way, huge legal invasions of privacy such as the Patriot Act and its descendants can never be viewed by the general public as unreasonable search, precisely because of how many people they affect. Everybody faces it, so it is incredibly commonplace, so everybody expects it, so it can’t be unreasonable.
by chadsix on 6/5/24, 1:48 PM
All of the LLM/AI providers can read your contents. The only thing between them and your chats is "trust," and we've all had promises broken on us before.
Trust is not security.
Shameless plug: You can definitely use IPv6.rs and Cloud Seeder [1][2] to run Ollama and OpenWebUI on your own computer (confidentially) and access it via TLS remotely (via phone, etc.).
[1] https://ipv6.rs/cloudseeder https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder
by 123yawaworht456 on 6/5/24, 3:58 PM
openai and azure routinely ban people for other reasons too. it's clear as day that all your prompts are logged, evaluated and stored indefinitely to be shared with a number of third parties, three letter ones and otherwise.
by poikroequ on 6/6/24, 3:40 AM
by Amorymeltzer on 6/5/24, 4:23 PM