ATTN: Third-Party AI is toggled to ON automatically

I'd like to ask that Dropbox end their data sharing agreement with OpenAI that was recently announced, and pledge to never integrate this sort of program again. Having a feature where user data is shared with a third party be opted-into by default for users who had no idea it was happening is a massive breach of trust for al of us, not just paid users currently selected to be alpha participants, and I doubt that many Dropbox customers would have trusted the company with their data if they knew it was going to be used in this way. This is the kind of decision that immediately makes me lose faith in Dropbox as a platform, and unless this ends before any wider rollout, I'm personally planning to switch to a new cloud service provider, and I've seen others express similar sentiments.

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.