• melfie@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    I guess they’re running g out of places to pirate training data and they’re desperate because their models aren’t particularly competitive.

  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    25 years ago our email was screened for keywords and manually reviewed if they registered a hit. Nothingburger.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    Ok I am on board with the AI hate train…

    Come on really?

    Capturing employee email and browsing history has been a standard practice for about 25 years.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s kind of true. People just unaware.
      I’m a dev and they did that at least 10 years ago at my work. Stupid as hell.

      Just not for ai training. More for it power trip and management illusions of productivity.

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        12 hours ago

        It is completely true. In the US you should never have any expectations of privacy when using a company computer.

        It is also done for the prevention of introduction of malware and other IT security reasons, there are legal and regulatory reasons that companies have to do that and there is also protection of intellectual property and reputation concerns.

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    17 hours ago

    This seems so obvious the biggest shock is that someone thought it to be newsworthy.