[HN Gopher] Dropbox has hidden third party AI settings, not disa...
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       Dropbox has hidden third party AI settings, not disabled them
        
       You are probably aware of the Dropbox third party AI sharing
       kerfuffle discussed last week.  If you login to your Dropbox
       account today you will see that the AI sharing tab in account
       settings is no longer visible.  This morning, through my
       university's IT contacts with Dropbox, we learned that the AI
       settings have now been hidden but are NOT off by default.  This is
       highly concerning and suggests that Dropbox is trying to sweep this
       issue under the rug rather than address the real privacy concerns
       that their AI sharing raises.
        
       Author : pmags
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2023-12-18 16:01 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
       | mattl wrote:
       | Still there for me on my Team account:
       | https://www.dropbox.com/team/admin/settings/ai but hidden on my
       | personal account
        
       | kramerger wrote:
       | Friendly reminder that your company probably pays significant
       | money to dropbox for something you dont use.
       | 
       | At my last company I proposed an audit of our cloud storage
       | services. IT emailed everyone to close their corporate account if
       | they absolutely didn't have to use Dropbox (or move files to
       | personal account if they were storing personal files).
       | 
       | It turned out that most paid a accounts existed because someone
       | had shared something with an employer who then used his corporate
       | email to create a dropbox account. We ended up saving A LOT of
       | money by closing those.
        
         | cyanydeez wrote:
         | Our company just moved everyones desktop to a corporate
         | dropbox. They also have sharepoints. The also just run servers
         | for the actual project files.
        
       | sgbeal wrote:
       | FWIW, the "AI" tab indeed no longer appears on my EU-based "plus"
       | account and the previous direct link to that settings tab
       | (https://www.dropbox.com/account/ai) now redirects to
       | /account/general.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Tell HN:
        
       | RankingMember wrote:
       | I'm completely out of the loop on the current state of Dropbox
       | but from context clues I'm guessing it's been plowed under by
       | enshittification?
        
         | cyanydeez wrote:
         | Not actually. The setting is essentially "allow OpenAI to look
         | at your files (we promise they won't use them for anything,
         | pinky swear)"
         | 
         | It's only the part in parenthesis that disturbs people. If I
         | told you that you can now search your drop box via open AI's
         | integration, you wouldn't really care.
         | 
         | Oh, the other caveat is that the default position of the switch
         | that allows the integration is on in America and off in Europe,
         | likely because, you know, American's dont seem to give a shit
         | how nakedly anti-privacy their tech companys _can potentially
         | be_.
        
       | jgalt212 wrote:
       | If the money men spent any real amount of time with an LLM, they
       | would not be pressuring every enterprise under the sun to find a
       | use case.
        
         | coldtea wrote:
         | Why would they care for it's effectiveness?
         | 
         | The money men care that it's in vogue, and sends a signal to
         | prop up the stocks / make the company seem "innovative".
        
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