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Re:Show HN: Danswer – Open-source question answering across ... by dimal on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:19PM (#36674365)
Isn't this what Google search does? Yet Google Docs, Gmail, etc are all OK?
Re:Show HN: Danswer – Open-source question answering across ... by TeMPOraL on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:54PM (#36674712)
It doesn't matter either way. What matters is that Google offers proper enterprise contracts. Contracts that are enforceable and transfer a lot of legal liability to the vendor. OpenAI, generally, does not offer such things.

Google Search itself is a somewhat special case - it gets a free pass because of its utility and because you're unlikely to paste anything confidential into a search box. But there are many places where even Google Search is banned on the data security grounds.

OpenAI offerings - ChatGPT, the playground, and the API - all very much encourage pasting large amounts of confidential information into them, which is why any organization with minimum of legal sense is banning or curtailing their use.