Sure. Let Adobe AI scan all of your documents. What could go wrong?

The strange thing is that at this point I would be significantly less concerned about an actual AI having my documents. There would be a chance that it's not manevolent, which isn't the case with MBAs.

And our standard operating systems are still not capable at even the most basic level of enabling users to easily sandbox programs or even see what they are accessing. It's a user agent failure.

Like many things, it'd not be much of a big deal on local (except needing a GPU with enough VRAM) .

I read this as adobe using AI to improve search, but it seems like some people are reading it as using unpublished content for training purposes.

Of course, either way, once data leaves your own network, you don't have control over it, and you simply have to trust that the other party won't (ab)use it.

Maybe this can help explain how Acrobat has grown bigger in size than many whole Linux Distros. I was installing Acrobat Standard for a client last week and the install package was 2.5Gb! This just to read and edit PDFs. I was appalled and started to look for alternatives but for a business environment with crucial tax PDFs Adobe is needed. After the install (to Windows PCs) I noticed not only is Acrobat installed but you are forced without choice to install several other things along with it like Creative Cloud.

Adobe in particular is in deep trouble going forward. And it's not just AI.

Technology to raise profit marketed as consumer friendly. Typical.

By the people that 10 years ago had all their 150m users passwords exposed in plain text because they used a reversible encryption to store them.

Inb4 somebody sics Elsevier and Springer on these Adobe goofuses.