Can platform-wide AI ever fit into enterprise security?
Platform-wide AI is smeared like honey across the top of the stack, and we only have their word for it that it’s ant-proof.
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How to Delete All AI Logs Permanently from Copilot on PC
Users looking to manage or delete their AI interaction logs and disable Copilot on their PC have several methods available, depending on their version of Windows.
A Devil’s Bargain With OpenAI
It does all feel a bit like publishers are making a deal with—well, can I say it? The red guy with a pointy tail and two horns?
Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
Vox Media says in a press release that it will use OpenAI’s technology to “enhance its affiliate commerce product, The Strategist Gift Scout” and expand its ad data platform, Forte.
FTC chair: AI models could violate antitrust laws
FTC Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday that companies that train their artificial intelligence (A) models on data from news websites, artists’ creations or people’s personal information could be in violation of antitrust laws.
Google plans to reuse heat after expanding a data center for AI
Google will drop €1 billion to expand its data center in Finland…It includes plans to reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings.
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products.
User Outcry as Slack Scrapes Customer Data for AI Model Training
By default, and without requiring users to opt-in, Slack said its systems have been analyzing customer data and usage information (including messages, content and files) to build AI/ML models to improve the software.
Recall and your data
You can always turn off saving snapshots at any time by going to Settings> Privacy & security > Recall & snapshots on your PC. You can also pause snapshots temporarily by selecting the Recall icon in the system tray on your PC.
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
Stack Overflow’s partnership with OpenAI also follows the LLM company’s recent push for increased partnerships and marquee deals, including their major announcement of a $100 billion datacenter to be built with Microsoft.
OpenAI strikes licensing deal with the magazine giant behind People
DotDask Meredith signed a deal on Tuesday with OpenAI to use AI models for its ad-targeting product, D/Cipher. In turn, Dotdash Meredith will license its content to ChatGPT.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow’s API and will receive feedback from the developer community to improve the performance of AI models. OpenAI, in turn, will give Stack Overflow attribution — aka link to its contents — in ChatGPT.
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told employees Wednesday that it is blocking access to ChatGPT on agency-issued laptops to “protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT.”
“I’m still trying to generate an AI Asian man and white woman”
The same companies telling the public that “AI is enabling new forms of connection and expression” should also be willing to offer an explanation when its systems are unable to handle queries for an entire race of people.
Watch an A.I. Learn to Write
While the inner workings of these algorithms are notoriously opaque, the basic idea behind them is surprisingly simple. They are trained by going through mountains of text, repeatedly guessing the next few letters and then grading themselves against it.
Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
“Data collected in mid-January on 44 top news sites by Ontario-based AI detection startup Originality AI shows that almost all of them block AI web crawlers, including newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian…”
Microsoft expands Copilot data protection so more users can chat with ease
Users will know that the data protection is on because there will be a “Protected” badge next to the user’s profile icon, and there is the text that reads “Your personal and company data are protected” above the text box.
Don’t tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice
Google goes on to state that the collected information helps them provide, improve, and develop products, services, and machine learning technologies.
Microsoft offers a way for businesses to learn how their employees feel about using Copilot
“Employees are asked questions about the benefits of using Copilot at work for specific tasks. Other survey questions that will ask workers to give their thoughts on the relevance of using Copilot and how it has been integrated into their business.”
Even ChatGPT Says ChatGPT Is Racially Biased
“ChatGPT’s claim that any bias it might ‘inadvertently reflect’ is a product of its biased training is not an empty excuse or an adolescent-style shifting of responsibility…”
The truth about Dropbox opening up your files to AI – and the loss of trust in tech
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels became convinced that Dropbox, which introduced a set of AI tools in July, was by default feeding OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and DALL•E 3, with user files as training fodder for AI models.
Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?
This feature in Nature asks whether the poor use of AI is doing science more harm than good:
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT
“We have just released a paper that allows us to extract several megabytes of ChatGPT’s training data for about $200. We estimate that it would be possible to extract ~a gigabyte of ChatGPT’s training dataset from the model by spending more…”
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
“It will make it very easy for any researcher or group of researchers to create fake measurements on non-existent patients, fake answers to questionnaires or to generate a large data set on animal experiments.”
The authors describe the results as a “seemingly authentic database”.
Garbage in, garbage out: mitigating risks and maximizing benefits of AI in research
Data sets that are poorly thought out or insufficiently described increase the risk of ‘garbage in, garbage out’ studies and the propagation of biases, rendering outcomes meaningless or, even worse, dangerous.
ChatGPT Plus members can upload and analyze files in the latest beta
Once a file is fed to ChatGPT, it takes a few moments to digest the file before it’s ready to work with it, and then the chatbot can do things like summarize data, answer questions, or generate data visualizations based on prompts.
Trip Up Bing AI And You Could Score A $15,000 Payday From Microsoft
This is Microsoft’s first bug bounty program explicitly targeted at its AI services, and as a result, there are quite a few guidelines that submitters must follow. The goal is to close security holes in the company’s new Bing products that make use of AI.
Microsoft Edge may be using your browsing history to inform Bing Chat AI — here’s how to stop it
What users of this feature may not be aware of is that their browsing data is being used to personalize Copilot, meaning that a huge amount of potentially revealing information is being shared with the artificial intelligence tool.
Is the future of AI Copilot in danger?
So that you can get a better idea of what we tell you here, soon and on the old continent we will have to give explicit consent so that Windows can share our data with other company services. It could even jeopardize the future of Microsoft’s AI.
Copilot AI could soon be available to a lot more Windows 11 users with a big privacy change from Microsoft
Microsoft noted the following: “In the European Economic Area (EEA), Windows will now require consent to share data between Windows and other signed-in Microsoft services. You will see some Windows features start to check for consent now, with more being added in future builds.”
How will AI learn next?
Perhaps the most fundamental limitation of today’s large language models is that they depend on knowledge that’s been generated by people. A sea change will come when the bots can generate knowledge for themselves.
Microsoft details Bing Chat Enterprise’s approach to data protection in the AI era
What sets Bing Chat Enterprise apart is its ability to offer commercial data protection. It ensures that chat histories are not retained and that any data used during a session is not used to train the underlying large language model.
Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?
If nine experts in privacy can’t understand what Microsoft does with your data, what chance does the average person have?
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