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So these companies configure every application on the system individually to use a proxy? What about things like curl?

• swiftcoder 2y ago
  In a sufficiently high-security environment, they just block all network access that doesn't go through the proxy. That's a fairly nuclear option, however, as it also blocks a lot of harmless traffic (Spotify, for example)
  • lolinder 2y ago
    Which, incidentally, would render this feature useless and harmless. It's just really hard to see the argument against the feature as anything other than an excuse for general anti-AI sentiments. Organizations that really care about this already have the tooling in place to stop all AI features in all products with just a few network-level rules. If they don't have that tooling, they're not taking it seriously and they're not going to start suddenly blocking iTerm2 because it added an optional AI feature.
    • swiftcoder 2y ago
      They don't, actually. Network blocking is all fine and dandy until someone adds a secure proxy into their software. Shit like this is exactly why enterprise software implements policy controls (as iTerm has just done).
• wpm 2y ago
  More likely they configure the operating system to force network traffic through a certain hole, or force users to manually connect to full tunnel VPN to access work resources. Currently my employers inspect every network call made on my device, and while they do not block OpenAI, they do block us from running specific browsers that cannot have their built in “secure” DNS settings changed such that they won’t sidestep inspection. I get emails if I visit the Eicar test file website.