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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Time for dropbox users to upload all kinds of crap for ai to "learn" from, all within tos of course.

I bet there are many kinds of ways to make your files poison the ai learning data. Its going to be fun for those ai guys to sort which files are probably safe and which are not. I think even if ONE user manages to slip something that corrupts the training data and its not noticed soon enough it might cause problems for them. Though someone who actually knows something about the subject might want to tell if i'm talking shit or not.

I'm not against ai in general, but if its trained with data that was obtained from unwilling people, like this, then its makers can fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It really depends on what the AI training is looking for. You can potentially poison an AI training model, but you'll likely have to add enough data to be statistically relevant.