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Not that I have anything against open technology (in fact I usually prefer it, with the caveat that I have a lot of respect for the quality of Figma and the tal
by chatmasta 3y ago
Not that I have anything against open technology (in fact I usually prefer it, with the caveat that I have a lot of respect for the quality of Figma and the talent of its founding team), but why should adding OpenAI as a subprocessor mark the death knell of Figma?
It's not like Figma is an accounting platform for analyzing your financial statements, or a log processor for querying sensitive PII. It's a tool for creating mock-ups of products that will eventually be public. The worst risk would be one of trade secret theft (e.g. a breach at OpenAI revealing mock-ups of an upcoming product), which is one that most companies already tolerate quite leniently. And of those most secretive companies that don't tolerate that risk, how many of them are using Figma now to begin with?
I suppose some companies may worry about implicitly providing their mock-ups to OpenAI for use in its training data. It would be nice if you could opt-out of this, and maybe you can. But the same arguments apply to this concern as do those to a general breach - if a company is worried about it then why use Figma in the first place? In fact as someone making mock-ups, I'd prefer that OpenAI train itself on my mock-ups, so that it gets better at making them for me.