Why would anyone not opt-out? (Besides not knowing they have to of course…)
Seems like only a losing situation.
Why would anyone not opt-out? (Besides not knowing they have to of course…)
Seems like only a losing situation.
Monetizing on user activity data through opt-out collection is not new. Pretending that his phenomenon has anything to do with AI seems like a play for attention that exploits peoples AI fears.
I'll sandwich my comments with a reminder that I am not pro-exploiting users' ignorance for their data.
Scale matters
"Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slack global models, you can opt out. To opt out, please have your Org or Workspace Owners or Primary Owner contact our Customer Experience team at feedback@slack.com with your Workspace/Org URL and the subject line “Slack Global model opt-out request.” We will process your request and respond once the opt out has been completed."
One of the primary reasons Slack was chosen was because they were a chat company, not an ad company, and we were paying for the service. Under these parameters, what was appropriate to say and exchange on Slack was both informally and formally solidified in various processes.
With this change, beyond just my personal concerns, there are legitimate concerns at a business level that need to be addressed. At this point, it's hard to imagine anything but self-hosted as being a viable path forward. The fact that chat as a technology has devolved into its current form is absolutely maddening.
This is basically like all privacy on the internet.
Everyone WOULD opt-out, if it was easy, and it becomes a whack-a-optput game.
note how you opt-out (generic contact us), and what happens when you do opt-out (they still train anyway)
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
I remembered the joke from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, maybe they will have a small hint in a very inconspicuous place, like inserting this into the user agreement on page 300 or so.
Activating an iphone for example has a screen devoted to how privacy is important!
It will show you literally thousands of pages of how they take privacy seriously!
(and you can't say NO anywhere in the dialog, they just show you)
They are normalizing "you cannot do anything", and then everyone does it.
What do they do with the content of your emails for advertising?
Which credit card networks at which retailers feed that same profile?
So it’s certainly “more true” with, well, every other vendor you can buy a phone from in a telco store or big box store.
almost every single municipal government including but not limited to politically sanctioned nations: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/
Seriously, for your sake; don't do this whole "I am the champion of Apple's righteousness" shtick. Apple doesn't care about privacy. That's the bottom line, you lack the authority to prove otherwise.
Because you might actually want to have the best possible global models ? Think of "not opting out" as "helping them build a better product". You are already paying for that product, if there is anything you can do, for free and without any additional time investment on your side that makes their next release better, why not do it ?
You gain a better product for the same price, they get a better product to sell. It might look like they get more than you do in the trade, and that's probably true; but just because they gain more does not mean you lose. A "win less / win more" situation is still a win-win. (It's even a win-win-win if you take into account all the other users of the platform).
Of course, if you value the privacy of these data a lot, and if you believe that by allowing them to train on them it is actually going to risk exposing private info, the story changes. But then you have an option to say stop. It's up to you to measure how much you value "getting a better product" vs "estimated risk of exposing some information considered private". Some will err on one side, some on the other.
I feel like someone would only have this opinion if they've never ever dealt with any in the tech industry, or capitalist, in their entire life. So like 8-19 year olds? Except even they seem to understand that the profit absolutist goals undermine everything.
This idea has the same smell as "We're a family" company meetings.
Are you sure you actually want what's hiding under those weasel words?
The problem with this reasoning, at least from what I am understanding is that you don't really know when/where the training of you data crosses the line into information you don't want to share until it's too late. It's also a slippery slope.
Then they can simply pay me for that. I have zero interest in helping any company improve their products for free -- I need some reasonable consideration in return. For example, a percent of their revenues from products that use my data in their development. I'm totally willing to share the data with them for 2-3% of their revenues, that seems acceptable to me.
I don't see any cogent generative AI tie-in for slack, and I can't imagine any company that would value a speculative, undefined hypothetical benefit more than they value their internal communications remaining internal.
PG&E has a "Do not sell my info" form.
For other institutions, go check the settings and read the privacy policies.
I don't see the point of Rocket Money. They seem like they exist to sell your info.
You should keep track of your own subscriptions. My way of doing this is to have a separate zero-annual-fee credit card ONLY for subscriptions and I never use that card for anything else. That way I can cleanly see all my subscriptions on that credit card's bill, cleanly laid out, one per line, without other junk. I can also quickly spot sudden increases in monthly charges. I also never use that card in physical stores so that reduces the chance of a fraud incident where I need to cancel that card and then update all my subscriptions.
If you want to organize it even more, get a zero-annual-fee credit card that lets you set up virtual cards. You can then categorize your subscriptions (utilities, car, cloud/API, media, memberships, etc.) and that lets you keep track of how much you're spending on each category each month.
I can't see a universe in which large corpos would allow such blatant corporate espionage for a product they pay for no less. But I can already imagine trying to talk my CTO (who is deep into the AI sycophancy) into opting us out is gonna be arduous at best.
Their customer support will have a hell of a day today.