Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox

Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by jay_kyburz on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:39PM (#38635201)

It's weird that Dropbox would want to pay Open AI to do whatever it is they are doing on everyone’s files, without knowing if a use will ever use or see that feature. It sounds like a premium feature that you would want a user to have to manually enable.

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Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by hungrigekatze on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:59PM (#38635434)

I have no doubt that this "feature" is a backroom deal worth millions because OpenAI is running out of public internet data with which to improve its models. (See this paper from researchers at MIT and a few other schools which predicts that high-quality text training data will be 'used up' by 2026: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04325 )

Think of all of the email, Google Docs, and other data that Alphabet has that it can use to train and improve its models. OpenAI has limited ways to get non-public text data unless Microsoft is giving them some data from Office users, Hotmail users.

Just my two cents. And whatever Dropbox is doing with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) / "new+better search" with the OpenAI APIs: I'm certain it could be done with less latency and probably would cost less if the RAG 'feature' / 'new search' was built in house at Dropbox.

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