Today I was “talking” to copilot asking about how to tackle a certain issue. The fucking thing replied with my manager and his manager’s NAMES telling me to reach out to them. Of course I was aware that Copilot’s primary function is not as an AI assistant but as a surveillance tool, but working in the EU, this still surprised me a lot.
That said, under the protections the EU affords me, I will absolutely continue to use Copilot for the most inane possible tasks. I know that they know, but they can’t act on it without breaking GDPR.
Your move, corporation.
You think american companies care about gdpr? lol
Are you aware Meta keeps paying larger and larger fines each year for failing to comply with gdpr in Facebook? Last one was 1.3 BILLION. they just keep doing it.
Oh, I’m very aware. My own (EU!) company has ISO certifications that “guarantee” our customers that all their data is perfectly protected.
It is not. We, among other things, have plaintext user/password combos in scripting. Certain logs are certainly not being processed lawfully.
It’s also not so bad as to be terrible but it still irks me a lot that we’re essentially lying to our users.
He’s just trying to win some more bread for Europe. Eventually everything will be fully subsidized by fines on American companies.
All that information is integrated in Active Directory and available for Microsoft to ingest into their AI. Heck it could be something they put in the system prompt. “If you have low confidence in your output then respond ‘contact your manager’ instead.
Hey, at least it gives you somewhat coherent answers. Copilot chat for me is less helpful than the Amazon customer service bot.
Suspiciously nut-shaped training dataset:
Gimme that co-pilot with real intelligence —> Shows you syntax errors and inconsistent object definitions.
I said real intelligence —>
Elix d’s nuts
