Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
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Feature turned on by default bothers users who like to keep their files private

Edited the title to what the article has now.

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Cool, so we have to just keep thinking about it and checking in to turn it off. Great way to combat a wave of people opting out.

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By the time it appears, it will have been “on” for some nonzero duration before you switch it off, so I guess they could already have irreversibly vacuumed up your existing data…

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