Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.
They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."
The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.
When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.
LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.
I'm reading horrified reactions on the fediverse to this. MS and google/android AI features are also turning people off. Of course I don't live i the real world, where presumably this sort of thing is meekly accepted or even welcomed. Like cryotocurrency, it's also results in a huge increase in electricity use and therefore emissions. The tech world is really going to shit.
stylofone wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:32 am
I'm reading horrified reactions on the fediverse to this. MS and google/android AI features are also turning people off. Of course I don't live i the real world, where presumably this sort of thing is meekly accepted or even welcomed. Like cryotocurrency, it's also results in a huge increase in electricity use and therefore emissions. The tech world is really going to shit.
This snapshot feature enables, by default, all kinds of abuse and fash behaviour. It's like a big, all-pervasive keylogger.
LATE ADD: Not to the cloud, perhaps, but a huge threat if anyone's at your PC.
Recall takes screenshots of almost everything you do on your PC (assuming you haven't adjusted these settings yourself). That means it won't stop taking screenshots when you enter or access sensitive information like passwords, your social security number, or banking data: If you can see it on-screen, chances are Recall is recording it. While it's great that these screenshots are encrypted when you lock your device, if someone does manage to break into your PC, they'll be able to access your entire Recall history, including this sensitive information. It seems like an unforced error to let a potential hacker open Recall, search "Bank of America" or "Turbo Tax," and watch as you from the past enters all the relevant credentials and private information in for them.
I also really like the mafia intimidation style, "don't worry, noone will see your private stuff and your porn, as long as you only use our shitty intrusive browser".
I am currently in the process of buying a new laptop and find it hilarious that these drongos are pushing memory destroying spyware when vendors appear to be actively engaged in reducing the storage and storage options on their devices.
Earth to laptop vendors, some of us actually use your devices to actually do stuff. Some of us even have to do stuff more than 3k from the cbd and therefore out of range of your predatory and insecure "cloud" bullshittery. Once we manage to install and open the software we use we actually need somewhere to store stuff, have you any idea how big satellite images and gis layers get? In a world where phones produce 50mb images you feel it is unnessesary to provide space to store more than 3?
Apparently Micro$oft is putting in a 16 BILLION $$ offer to buy Valve.
Fuck.
I know some don't like valve due to market dominance of the store, but that same dominance is pretty much the ONLY reason proton exists (and the steam deck) and thereby breaking the corporate apple/microsoft duopoly on PC games (allowing many games to run on open source linux OSs).
So I imagine MS will destroy what is left of the studios (they seem to do that), will turn steamdeck into a windows device and stop further development of Proton (so can't play windows games on linux any more).
Though they may just cancel all those afore mentioned things as I imagine all they really want is the store, so that market domiance, can drive more Windows.
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