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Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training (news.ycombinator.com)
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Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training::undefined

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Response from dropbox in that post: "Jumping in to clarify some confusion. The AI third-party toggle is only visible to users who have access to our AI features. If you don’t see the AI third-party toggle, then you can’t view or use Dropbox AI features. To reiterate, neither this nor any other setting automatically or passively sends any Dropbox customer data to a third-party AI service. Please see our Help Center article for a list of those with access to Dropbox AI features."

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't know why I find it so surprising that Dropbox apparently has a Hacker News account, but I am mindblown that's a thing.

I thought HN would be way too niche for that to be a thing.

[–] pheew@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seeing dropbox is actually a ycombinator alumni it’s not that surprising 😄

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

If you want a laugh, go back to their initial "Show HN" post. It made one person with the top comment rather infamous for being out of touch with his comment on "I could just rsync, why would I use this?"

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dropbox is pretty cool. (Don't mistake this as some weird astroturfing.) I remember hearing about their custom hardware on an episode of se-radio. Very fascinating stuff.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Native Linux client is why I use them. That’s reasonably cool for a corporation in my book.