Microsofts new Terms and Service agreement is rather questionable. In short; It does not clarify if Microsoft will use your data to train it’s AI.
So Mozilla is calling for arms to sign their petition for Microsoft to give a proper answer! You can sign it here -> https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/
Mozillas Context;
Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI? We had four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners look at Microsoft’s new Service Agreement, and none of our experts could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models.
If nine experts in privacy can’t understand what Microsoft does with your data, what chance does the average person have? That’s why we’re asking Microsoft to say if they’re going to use our personal data to train its AI.
Why ask when you know the answer is yes?
If the product is free, you are the product. Even when it’s not free, you’re still the product because data is too valuable.
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I don’t even use any Microsoft products but I did it anyway.
You probably use Azure.
I don’t even know what that is.
Why is everyone upset about personal data used to train AI?
Beyond what everyone else has said, it has already been shown that LLMs have a chance of regurgitating training data, which means that someone’s personal data could get returned in a Bing Chat query.
Why should a company get to use my work and data for free to train their AI, for which they’ll make a ton of money, without compensating me. At a minimum they should be informing me so I can make that choice with full knowledge.
This isn’t a university or educational research either, this is one of the largest companies in the world with Billions of dollars in annual revenue. And to top it off, I already have to pay them for their operating system and annually for their office suite. So not only am I paying them for their product, they’ll then steal my data to train an AI to try and sell that to us too?
That’s not even taking into account any concerns with “AI might replace me at my job” that a number of folks have.
In theory they shouldnt. Society has given in too much regarding what data can be used and here we are.
I think any personal information should not be allowed access by third parties or tech companies. Your personal information is just that…personal. Unfortunately, it is about bottom line profit.
They compensate you in the form of providing products like Bing for free. Same way that Facebook pays their bills by running ads.
Not to mention the fact that if they include office products in this, its not just personal information.
A lot of IP gets produced in there, even if it’s not purchased or created within an enterprise license. So if they train on that they will be basically stealing corporate information that they definitely have no rights to.
Here’s a deal. Give me unlimited lifetime access to your AI and you can use my public online data. Should be fair enough, right?
Lack of informed consent is reason enough.
- They harvest it without your consent
- They don’t tell you what they harvest
- They don’t tell you what they use it for
- It’s your personal data
Yes, you could argue that by signing up for their services you give them perpetual permissions to do what they want with your data, which is what usually happens, but the issue already lies in that this is acceptable to begin with
“Open”AI stole the open web and monetized it and made billions , and there are no solid legal consequences. So why Microsoft and other companies wont do the same? I mean Google is doing it and made an empire of it.
too bad they aren’t waiting for the answer (lmao) before switching to microsoft git hosting for their development
On my work PC it’s painfully obvious that MS tracks every word you type into Teams and Outlook based on the clickbait shit they plaster all over the MSN homepage. It’s always customized to include topics that were discussed in my work messages.
Nowhere in any of the Office365 land do you see a notification that they are analyzing everything you do, but it remains obvious that they are.
This leads to the reasonable conclusion that they will abuse your data for any avenue of profit.
That’s wild. Are you serious? Can you point to any proof or articles about that direct reflection of the snooping? I assume your employer had to agree to their information being used for advertising/etc.
I’m just going to start posting in Esperanto. Even AI won’t be interested in learning Esperanto.
They do exist! :-)
Isn’t everyone?
I mean… Google already does this… We know Microsoft already does this. This feels like an attempt by Mozilla to garner attention from both the press and users to promote Mozilla accounts.
if the document doesn’t explicitly say that they don’t… they do. and even if it did, odds are they (or one of their ‘partners’) do anyway.
What if i publish all my personal data myself. What if i also publish with a licence forcing anything that uses it to be opensource?
Same thing they’re doing right now: ignoring the license.
my opinion is:… it’s obvious. it’s microsoft. they do everything to make profit, AI included.
Not defending Microsoft, but isn’t that the same for all companies.
Is there any guide for a windows noob that wants to switch to Linux? I mostly use software that manages my video and audio collection. I don’t know where to start.
For questions you may have the [email protected] community is very welcoming. In theory there are also [email protected] and [email protected] which should be more targeted at new users but they seem to be quite inactive lately (won’t hurt anyone here to go take a look there and try to keep them alive :-)).
Thanks buddy.
I recommend a virtual machine on your Windows PC as a host.
Start simple, e.g. do all your web browsing in the Linux VM. Don’t try to transition entirely to Linux in one go, that’s too much. Once you’re comfortable in the web browser, add one more piece of software.
Eventually get to the point where you’re doing everything in the VM for a month or so, and then boot into it directly. Or perhaps buy a second PC and a KVM for your keyboard/mouse/monitor. Because you might find there’s one thing (e.g. games) that works better on Windows.
what’s a kvm?
keyboard video mouse switch (for using one set of keyboard, mouse, and video with multiple computers). Think of it like a channel changer
Start using free software now, while you are still on Windows. Whenever you want to do something new, do a search for free software you can do it with. Then when you do finally switch, all the software you’ve been using is already right there.
YouTube is honestly the best place for tutorials. I went from being a complete Linux noob to running more Linux in the house than I can count, just by watching video on YouTube.
DJ Ware’s YouTube channel is awesome. For instance, he has a nice video on distros for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mLqdQw3qE
If you want to get emerged into the linux world and get broad understanding then I recommend watching videos on youtube by DistroTube. Adjacent, kinda more advanced channels are Luke Smith and Brodie Robertson.
If you just want to use linux and be done with that topic, you can use linux mint. What you have to know is that you get all software from the software center, not from websites. The rest should be very familiar.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
I dont use anything made by microsoft so i dont think its using my data to train AI
