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Microsoft has access to ALL corporate data of ALL companies (sharepoint, teams, outlook, office365). Remaining step is to link chatgpt to it and train automated agents.

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They can't legally do that though for a vast swath of those companies due to various data-protection regs.

They do already have several "train your own model"-style ChatGPT products available though.

I mean, there’s a dozen lawsuits against OpenAI just for training on published books. If you’re going to get sued anyway, why not train on private data?

Not all corporates use Microsoft

That's true. Only 95% of enterprise companies use Azure [0] and only 83% of Fortune 500 use Office 365.

0: https://www.extremetech.com/deals/307468-microsoft-azure-is-...

1: https://zipdo.co/statistics/microsoft-office/

The 17% who don’t use outlook email all their data to the 83% who do use outlook on a daily basis. MSFT has it all.

This is one of the reasons I mostly gave up on protonmail. Sure all my email is encrypted on proton's servers, but everyone else on any given email chain is using gmail, so what's the point?

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