OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

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There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. Some articles are more nuanced, but there’s still a lot of confusion. It seems not to be true. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here’s the problem: we don’t trust OpenAI. We don’t trust tech corporations. And—to be fair—corporations in general. We have no reason to. Simon Willison nails it in a tweet: “OpenAI are training on every piece of data they see, even when they say they aren’t” is the new “Facebook are [...]