That seems to be the terms for the personal edition of Microsoft 365 though? I’m pretty sure the enterprise edition that has the features like DLP and tagging content as confidential would have a separate agreement where they are not passing on the data.

That is like the main selling point of paying extra for enterprise AI services over the free publicly available ones.

Unless this boundary has actually been crossed in which case, yes. It’s very serious.

My guess is that this is a propaganda effort meant to counter that EU countries is putting pressure on social media to moderate hate speech and importantly disinformation.

Having an official US government site means both that it will have higher apparent legitimacy (compared to a random X post) for people who want to believe. It’ll likely also mean that there is no European corporate presence to pressure so the only option would be to escalate to blocking the entire site, which I don’t see happening tbh.

That is kind of assuming the worst case scenario though. You wouldn’t assume that QA can read every email you send through their mail servers ”just because ”

This article sounds a bit like engagement bait based on the idea that any use of LLMs is inherently a privacy violation. I don’t see how pushing the text through a specific class of software is worse than storing confidential data in the mailbox though.

That is assuming that they don’t leak data for training but the article doesn’t mention that.

The question can go the other way as well; what proof does people have that Discord is outright lying in their communication? All the communication indicates that they have actually taken steps to minimize the privacy impact. Importantly using local processing and only storing if it’s successful or not, even if that means that it can likely be bypassed (important web dev rule, never trust the client side).

Now introducing the Persona system is very concerning, and also a reason I don’t think it’s an overreaction anymore. Even if they claim they only save the data for longer than 7 days, the connection to Palantir and Peter Thiel is extremely troubling and erodes the trust. I mean it comes down to me not trusting them as much as Discord.

To expand on your question on why they wouldn’t be as evil as possible, it comes down to whether or not you believe that all developers and product managers are evil or not. I have worked for a decade for a few IT heavy companies and yeah, there are shit going on, but it’s mostly due to laziness, or product managers wanting numbers and pretty graphs of user behaviors (when it comes to privacy and data sharing).

The leak of the 70k UK identities is an interesting case. It’s often framed as if the processor was hacked but it was actually the normal support system where they handled appeals. The real mistake was that Discord didn’t properly think through appeal handling and it is probably attributable to a mistake/laziness then intentional malice.

Of course a bit different for the macro social networks, whose primary income stream is selling ads and they want to build behavior profiles because that allows them to argue that advertisers get more value out of their platform. The point I want to make is that your real name and photo doesn’t actually have any value for the companies, because they already do have everything they need from your activity. It does have risks and liabilities though if nothing else due to GDPR.

This article feels a bit like ragebait.

Yes, this happened once with a company that went bankrupt 2 years after launching their product. They seem to have designed an exceptionally poor product. How does this mean that the enormous engineering failures of this small startup applies to all other car brands?

Most cars have a very clear separation between core driving software and the infotainment, and the vast majority will never have any software updates so what works, will continue to work (or the other way around). At worst you’ll loose stuff like remote commands, wheatear info, list of charging points/map updates… Things that are kind of dynamic and needs to be regularly updated.

They’re probably not going to use it…

… but if they do it’s going to be a hell of a good starting point in motivating people to leave Facebook

That’s not all, though; some users are also unhappy not just with the age verification process itself and the security of their data, but also the people bankrolling Persona, which includes the investment fund of Palantir founder, Peter Thiel. Palantir is the data and surveillance company currently used by US federal agencies, including ICE, and Thiel’s name appears 2000+ times in the Epstein files.

I used to think that people were massively overreacting about all this, but this is some pretty fucking suspicious connections.

They can absolutely run the verification code client side, but they can’t really fully trust the data being provided from client side since the client might be manipulated or a 3rd party client may have reverse engineered the API to bypass the verification.

Probably they made the decision that it’s worth it to protect privacy (you know the thing people have been complaining about) weighed against that most teens probably won’t figure out how to bypass the system… which makes this sudden change (trial?) where it’s being sent to a 3rd party anyway kind of odd.

Honestly you pretty much don’t. Llama are insanely expensive to run as most of the model improvements will come from simply growing the model. It’s not realistic to run LLMs locally and compete with the hosted ones, it pretty much requires the economics of scale. Even if you invest in a 5090 you’re going to be behind the purpose made GPUs with 80GB VRAM.

Maybe it could work for some use cases but I rather just don’t use AI.

Working at home since 2020, and while I agree with the advantages most people post here, I definitely miss talking with people over lunch, or even getting out for After Work beers now and then. (Obviously that depends a lot on if you like your coworkers or not)

This is apparently a super controversial opinion but I wouldn’t mind working somewhere that forces people to the office 2, maybe 3 days a week. Just not every day.

Maybe i misunderstand what you mean but yes, you kind of can. The problem in this case is that the user sends two requests in the same input, and the LLM isn’t able to deal with conflicting commands in the system prompt and the input.

The post you replied to kind of seems to imply that the LLM can leak info to other users, but that is not really a thing. As I understand when you call the LLM it’s given your input and a lot of context that can be a hidden system prompt, perhaps your chat history, and other data that might be relevant for the service. If everything is properly implemented any information you give it will only stay in your context. Assuming that someone doesn’t do anything stupid like sharing context data between users.

What you need to watch out for though, especially with free online AI services is that they may use anything you input to train and evolve the process. This is a separate process but if you give personal to an AI assistant it might end up in the training dataset and parts of it end up in the next version of the model. This shouldn’t be an issue if you have a paid subscription or an Enterprise contract that would likely state that no input data can be used for training.

For now, BMW is defaulting to a more traditional approach. If it requires a data package of some sort, it will probably have a recurring fee—and BMW says its customers are already comfortable subscribing to such add-ons.

Sounds like a fairly reasonable position imo, and that they listen to the outrage about heated seats (which tbh was ridiculous). I get the feeling that everyone who commented on this didn’t actually read the article, lol.

Full disclosure: I own a fairly recent BMW and do like it a lot. Would I have bought it with subscription based heated seats? Maybe not, but I do appreciate other things like having a physical button to go into battery save mode and not having to dive 3 touch screen menus down… or that it’s one of the most powerful hybrids in electric only mode (though not anymore I think)… or being generally more dialed back when it comes to driver assist features.

That said I will admit that it has a physical button that tells me to pay up when pressed, to enable automatic high beam control… though it’s not like it was an advertised feature (got it used).

I’ve always been self hosting a lot but recently I’ve started to move some external things

• Domain management from Cloudflare/AWS to OVH.
• DNS and CDN from AWS/Cloudflare to BummyCDN
• E-mail Gateway from AWS SES to a mail server on Hetzner (pending)
• Considering to self host email to get off Googlw Workspace (free), but Im not sure that is a commitment I want to make.

And of course trying to go from Reddit to the Fediverse

Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?

I can’t really tell if you’re joking or not but no, I’m saying that it’s a bug, and at no point anything is sent off your computer

The first one was my an experimental instance and I will shut it down soon. Initially I planned to migrate the database to new hosting but I also regretted using a domain that was essentially a reference to reddit (.red). So I decided to start clean on another domain while it was only me who used it for a limited time.

I like that the article excerpt clearly says that it’s simply about files not being removed when the trash bin is emptied, and it’s a problem specific to the Canonical snap system… Yet every single other comment in here rants about Microsoft spyware. Not many people read beyond the headline, lol.

As someone who has been exploring the Fediverse for about 2 weeks, it’s been an overall good experience. I’ve been trying to use it instead of Reddit as much as possible, but it’s also apparent that there’s a lot less content.

I hope that the verse will continue to grow and that it will solve the content problem.

Otherwise the clients feel like a breath of fresh air and less enshittified than Reddit…

edit: Also the first comment talking about experiences that are just too jarring. I haven’t encountered anything like that but maybe I am just a sweet summer child.