Do you use Dropbox? Do you like your files looked at by openAI?

Dropbox has an OPT-OUT 'feature' that they've just implemented where any files that you upload to Dropbox for storage or sharing are automatically shared with OpenAI. They claim it is NOT for AI training. YAY?! But then why are they sharing it with the best-known AI company? Doesn't make sense.

Supposedly Dropbox is developing an AI-assisted cross-platform search feature that will let you search for stuff across Dropbox, Outlook email, etc. And this is in preparation for it. However, it is turned on by default. To turn it off, you have to sign on to Dropbox through a web browser and dig into your settings.

The Ars article has instructions and a link on how to deactivate it. Allegedly your data will be discarded before 30 days.

Myself, I stopped using Dropbox a couple of years ago when they capped the number of devices that could link to an account to three. While I liked the ease with which I could share links to a file, I didn't find it worth paying for when there were free options that also had file sharing.

An amusing thing about comments in the Ars article: the number of people closing their Dropbox accounts over this!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/

Good Omens is returning for a third and final season!

I'm looking forward to this, even though we haven't finished Season 2 yet!!!

Why the URL contains the word 'cancelled', I do not understand.

https://gizmodo.com/good-omens-season-3-cancelled-amazon-neil-gaiman-1851099234

Just what you've been waiting for: the Muskbrat has filed to open a STEM school in Texas!

Yep, another celebrity opening another vanity school project. Exactly what the country/world needs.

The paperwork for a non-profit school was filed with the IRS last year and received its tax-exempt status in March. Apparently he is negotiating with a college conference to take it all the way to the university level.

WHEEEEEEE!

He's committed $100,000,000 of his own money to the project, which will focus on STEM.

Lots of amusing comments on the article, I especially liked the one suggesting it be named the Certified University of North Texas, which would be right on-brand for the Muskbrat. Consider that his space company sounds like "space sex" when pronounced and his car models spell "s 3 x y" when you list them out. The idiot is a frat boy, born with a golden spoon in his mouth from his dad's opal mine in South Africa.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-is-reportedly-launching-a-new-university-in-t-1851097464