Edited the title to what the article has now.
Holy hell guys, did you all just read the headline and run to the comment section?
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enabled by default means you can see the feature and interact with it if you choose to do so
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when you interact with it, it explains it needs to send this file to OpenAI. Of course it does, that’s how it knows what you’re asking of it. You are prompted to choose to use this feature
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if you choose not to interact with it, nothing has changed, nothing has been sent anywhere
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if you really don’t want to look at it anymore you can turn it off, which is nice. A lot of companies drop stuff like this and you’re stuck with it whether you like it or not
when you interact with it, it explains it needs to send this file to OpenAI
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What? You expect people to actually read articles instead of jumping to conclusions based solely on the headlines? Outrageous
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They fucking WHAT.
ITT: not nearly enough people demanding that Dropbox execs go to prison for massive violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Weird, I can’t find the setting in settings…
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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.
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.
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…
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!
Same, it’s not in my settings anywhere.
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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).
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.
I found it under “Third-party AI” on the web portal settings. It was enabled for me, I’m in the US.
PSA: use Cryptomator if u gonna use public clouds
Also: public cloud + cryptomator > e2ee cloud (Proton etc)
That’s neat, thanks!
An interesting note: OneDrive really dislikes that, it reads your encrypted files as ransomware and asks you to say they’re OK every time you upload something new. It’s really annoying.
Then stop using it and go to Sync > Dropbox > Box (not 100% if it works for Box), way better
Of course OneDrive hates it, you’re cucking Microsoft from access to your cleartext files.
I can’t haz private files? 🥺
—Microsoft, definitely
And this is precisely why you don’t store your files in the cloud.
Me with my 70 gigabytes of furry porn commissions
*unencrypted
The cloud is just someone else’s computer. I thank fuck all the time that I bothered to learn Linux, that time sink has opened so many badass doorways like learning how to set up nextcloud or NFS or Samba and hosting my own cloud in my basement.
So glad I stopped using dropbox as soon as they hired Condoleeza Rice.
There’s my people. I had to scroll too far!
Of all things and companies in existence, I had never imagined Dropbox would betray me like that.
Tech companies are only as good as their financial health.
Loyalty is stupid.
In desperation, they will milk you.
Tech companies are only as good as their financial health.
This is true, in every way.
It only interacts with OpenAI when you use the feature and warns you about it ahead of time. None of your files were automatically sent over and if you don’t want to use this feature they allow you to turn it off. This is in the article.
On a side note, I love that article image that they used. The contrast it’s trying to portray is so chef’s kiss
Be interesting to see how long after today this stands
Unsettling
Not available in Europe, UK and Canada, but in California. Interesting
wait hold on a second, don’t I have a reasonable expectation that my non public files aren’t public?
Not according to Dropbox ToS. You already agree to allow them to use your materials for marketing and research purposes. This is only a minor step further.
