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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 12:04:31 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Microsoft Connected Experiences means they collect your Word and Excel files for AI training. Why not call it AI training? Why use such words? This is an unethical practice followed by a trillion-dollar corporation. How is this even legal? I am so glad that I don’t have Windows OS or MS office.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 12:17:10 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     And some of you laugh or call me paranoid when I say I use Linux, and it sometimes takes days to get wifi working on Linux, or I don’t trust the cloud, or get angry when I say billionaire brats and AI companies are predators. See, they don’t even have the guts to call “AI training” AI training because they know the negativity around that term. It is all a race to the bottom now; meanwhile, our politicians are super busy throwing mud around and working with billionaire fuckwits.

   • Tertle950 (tertle950@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 12:18:58 JST Tertle950

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     @nixCraft You don't hate the tech oligarchy enough

     You think you do, but you don't

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 12:54:09 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     If I worked for Microsoft, OpenAI, or any other predatory AI company, I would be ashamed to admit it to all of you and my friends/family. These third-rate companies trick people into giving away their personal data, and despite having trillions in assets, they can't afford to pay out for AI training. I'm really glad I don't work for them. I would rather choose a horrible death from illness and die than work for these companies.

   • rouxdoo √ (rouxdoo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 13:26:27 JST rouxdoo √

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     @nixCraft
     I suspect that there are very few who work at these "AI Companies" and there is not guilt to be found among the handful of workers there...that is the whole point of these endeavors - to do away with actual people in the mix. The few who tend the power supply of the machines have no investment in the outcome or output of the sausage grinder they feed.

   • London Eastfield 🇵🇸 (lawmanlungis@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 17:11:42 JST London Eastfield 🇵🇸

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     @nixCraft "I would rather choose a horrible death from illness and die"

     A variation of this was what I said to my boss when he asked if I would help out with AWS.

   • 3dcandy (3dcandy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 17:43:36 JST 3dcandy

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     @nixCraft whilst I don't like this kind of thing the real issue here is that if Microsoft didn't do it, somebody else would and probably already has....
     This IS the real issue, the data from everybody is being sucked up to train AI regardless of if you want it to be or not!

   • tessarakt (tessarakt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:37:00 JST tessarakt

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     @nixCraft well, is it legal?

   • Herr Braun (braun_sl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:55:21 JST Herr Braun

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     @nixCraft
     To anybody looking for an MS Office alternative but being forced to use MS Office for collaboration, I recommend OnlyOffice. The compatibility is really good.

   • UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:04:42 JST UkeBLCatboy

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     @nixCraft I'm fine with my windows 11 dual boot (it's needed for some games like Genshin at least without workarounds and also apex and such completely, and I'll never give up any game I like not even one for anything let alone some ai feature), but I write in either old Ms office 2003 or libreoffice. Don't want my yaoi ship smut fics used for ai slop lol

     Windows is a need though, I'd sooner shoot myself then give up my awesome rog ally or or even 1 game. My hobbies are everything to me xD

   • caranea (caranea@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:14:43 JST caranea

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     @nixCraft
     "connected experiences" predate ChatGPT and Microsoft's large-scale investment into OpenAI, mainly for cross-device integration. Turned it off years ago when they first started to link it to "automation in the cloud". Their use of the function to handle AI training is a "logical" next step. So less a malicious marketing trick, more a complete failure to understand boundaries. After all: we are talking MS here, who thought Recall was a good idea...

   • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:15:01 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     @nixCraft When corporate documents get fed into this training system, the result is that eventually someone might write a query that produces segments of those documents verbatim. This is a data security nightmare and any enterprise that values it's data should seriously reevaluate whether Microsoft should be used as a vendor AT ALL due to their willingness to force such a completely non-sensible default.

   • Meercat ✅ (meercat0@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:21:53 JST Meercat ✅

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     @nixCraft exactly, how is this legal?

   • Teop Versant (teop_versant@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 20:26:53 JST Teop Versant

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     @nixCraft I do my word processing in Linux. I found that Microsoft Office will not open .odt documents. However, OpenOffice will open .doc documents. My solution was to install OpenOffice on Windows. Done.

   • René Seindal (seindal@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 20:53:29 JST René Seindal

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     @nixCraft
     Do they do this in Europe too?

     I'm not so sure the GDPR allows this. Consent has to be explicit.

   • Quark Maker (quarkmaker@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 21:27:11 JST Quark Maker

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     @nixCraft The two best alternatives out there I've found are LibreOffice and OnlyOffice, of which I use LO but I've seen OO in action and it looks like they've put in a lot of time and love there, too.

   • Sable Shade 🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (sable_shade@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 21:59:14 JST Sable Shade 🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸

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     @nixCraft imaginary switches connected to actual lies.
     Good luck with that

   • Unbloated :mastodon: (unbloated@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 22:43:52 JST Unbloated :mastodon:

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     Personally one of my computers use Office 2010 and at this day I still sometimes use it... It's why older versions are not always bad xD

   • User01 (thelinuxdream@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 23:32:31 JST User01

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     @nixCraft
     I feel the same way. I only run Linux. The stark difference between Windows and Linux is very easy to see. I can't surrender my rights to an end user license agreement. This is MY computer, and I'm not giving up my privacy to their cloud platform running on my hardware. No thanks.

   • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 08:07:39 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     it blows my mind people don't understand they are giving up all their trade secrets to a trillion dollar company that is absolutely using it against them.

     American MBAers running this country in every industry and at every bureaucratic level, have no understanding whatsoever of the amount of power they are giving to a handful of companies with their choices of business software and web services, but especially to Microsoft.

     none.

     @nixCraft

   • Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 09:25:16 JST Robert Link

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     @nixCraft And in the next update they probably toggle it back on after moving it to another spot in the app.

   • j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 09:32:18 JST j@mastodon

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     @nixCraft

     People are so eager to use AI.
     AI is now a strategy to spy on people's devices even further.

   • j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 04:19:48 JST j@mastodon

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     @nixCraft

     The Verge just published an article about this, Microsoft denies.

   • Jay Stephens (jaystephens@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 13:53:52 JST Jay Stephens

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     @nixCraft worse, for 90% of the man-hours of non-gaming Windows use (workplace), whether or not the end user can find these settings is irrelevant. They'd need to:
     1. Be online enough to be aware of the issues
     2. Feel this is a thing they can raise with management without repercussions
     3. Persuade management to tell IT to change the settings and push that out via group policy.