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If you click the setting to 'off' you are making the assumption that your stated desire will be honored and that there won't be another move like that in the future. The better move would be to stop using Dropbox, that way you are really sure that your files won't be accessed by unauthorized parties.

I really don't get what drives companies like Dropbox to throw their carefully built up reputation under the bus like this.



Most laypeople have no idea what any of this means, and that's if they even hear about it at all.

The tech community that's clued into this is such a small percentage, unfortunately.

Funny anecdote: remember when those "I do not consent to facebook using my data" messages that were, ironically, posted to people's facebook walls?


Companies like Dropbox see reputation as capital. Keep a little, but spend most of it on growth.


All this setting does is make the feature available to you in the frontend -- it's up to you to use it or not!


How do you know that? You can't because Dropbox doesn't say


Or do I…


Greed.


If true: what does OpenAI pay dropbox for access to their customers' files? And what kind of guarantees are there that OpenAI stays within the lines, because all of these AI companies are looking for as much non-AI tainted data as they can get their grubby little fingers on for training purposes.


It's possible OpenAI doesn't get any money; and they just provide whatever "AI service" is being requested of them, and returns the results to Dropbox.

And, well, if OpenAI just happens to gain access to a trove of data by providing the service... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


meh, I agree, don't trust future Dropbox, but the way it's explained is this switch stops any team member from using the alpha OpenAI integration to search files you have in drop box And since that integration has to send OpenAI your data, this switch prevents it.

again, don't trust future drop box but the hidden switch here is willfully interacting with dropboxs' openAi integration.




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