PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/psa-microsoft-may-be-training-on

by ZeroMinx • 2 years ago

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ashton314• 2 years ago

I don’t have access to any Windows machines. Otherwise, I’d be tempted to turn this on and pump it full of Markov-chain generated slop.

How big would the damage be if a few percent of their userbase did this?

dole• 2 years ago

I'd imagine mostly to the productivity of the sloppers. Considering this looks like a Windows Office-wide default opt-in, I feel you'd have difficulty hitting 1% userbase.

trod1234• 2 years ago

This wouldn't have an impact.

There would inevitably be a classifier that acts as a filter pre-training to identify slop and ignore it.

dmonitor2• 2 years ago

https://xkcd.com/743/

yesfitz• 2 years ago

Microsoft refuted this claim: https://x.com/Microsoft365/status/1861160874993463648

"In the M365 apps, we do not use customer data to train LLMs. This setting only enables features requiring internet access like co-authoring a document." -@Microsoft365

dmonitor2• 2 years ago

They wouldn't have to combat misinformation if they actually told users what the switches turned on/off instead of vague descriptions that could plausibly allow them to do whatever the hell they want.

autoexec• 2 years ago

Yeah, MS collecting your personal data and using it for whatever they want sounds exactly like a "feature requiring internet access" to me.

sherburt3• 2 years ago

File>Options>Trust Centre (left panel)>Trust Centre Settings (button)>Privacy Options (left panel)>Privacy Settings (button)>uncheck "Turn on optional connected experiences"

Wow

derelicta• 2 years ago

Microsoft is a powerful company, they know themselves above the Law. So why would they stop?

PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge

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