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So to anyone wondering, I’m getting the sense is that the option is only available for paid / business accounts. My hunch is that the reason free accounts don’t
by vlovich123 3y ago
So to anyone wondering, I’m getting the sense is that the option is only available for paid / business accounts. My hunch is that the reason free accounts don’t see it is that they don’t get to opt out & are forced in - it wouldn’t make sense that they opt-in paid/ENT but then exclude free accounts altogether vs free accounts are opt-in and can’t choose. Alternatively, may be it isn’t relevant to free accounts because they don’t have access to AI-related features: https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-ai https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-...
The data isn’t used for training, only for inference & DropBox and OpenAI pinky promise to delete any data sent to them within 30 days.
- dbmikus 3y agoI'd actually guess that free accounts don't have the "toggle AI" option because they just disable AI inference for free users. LLM inference is pretty expensive.
- cyanydeez 3y agodefinitely. for a group of hackers, it's difficult to understand not seeing the play: Dropbox engaged OpenAI to process files a user requests to "understand" or search. then the files are sent. the switch would stop this. imagine the wasted compute if the AI just went and scanned everything. this is a adhoc service one-off. definitely turn it off if you don't want your files scanned by OpenAI. but the cost of moving everyones file to an AI would be absurd.
- pmags 3y agoI have a free account and this option was turned on by default (with the option to disable it). Talk about scummy....