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Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Why does dropbox have the ability to see your files at all? That seems like a pretty bad security flaw in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Because you gave them the files?

If you don't want dropbox to see them, encrypt them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The downside is I used to use Dropbox a lot for collabs with others. We're now using something else (Google Drive 🤮) but for a while, Dropbox was king.