You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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ATTN: Third-Party AI is toggled to ON automatically
Fellow DropBox Community Members,
If you don't already know this, Third-Party AI is automatically set to "ON" without our permission.
To FIX THIS: Go to your Account Icon > Settings > Third-Party AI and toggle OFF.
Why DropBox thought it was a good idea not to be up front about this change is beyond me. But it's *very shady* and I'm not happy about it! I'm a longtime customer but I know I have other options and will leave if DropBox gets way too cozy with Third-Party AI folks.
Sincerely,
ECM
I'm already looking at other options. If they were working in our best interest, it would have been an opt-in instead of an opt-out. None of us can trust Dropbox anymore, but I'm not sure there's a service out there that isn't screwing us over for profit. I've had my work as an author and artist scraped, and now I have to worry about my storage company giving faithless bad actors access to my info. "Vetted" my a**. If they did, they would never have looked in unethical OpenAI's direction. I am seething, and that will never go away.
As someone that's never partook in legal action I hope this results in a lawsuit. Unconsented sharing of private data with a third party is at least on par with a data breach, especially when that data is on a paid service for private storage. And as someone who works in tech I'm seriously considering rolling a custom storage solution using async key encrypted files on AWS/GCP backend. Only reason not to is convenience.
Wow. This is AWFUL.
Dropbox was supposed to be secure. That's why I pay $$ for it. My data is not supposed to be read by random third parties that I have no control over.
WTF, Dropbox????!?????
