Security News > 2023 > December > OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today
There's a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents.
Dropbox isn't sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here's the problem: we don't trust OpenAI. We don't trust tech corporations.
"OpenAI are training on every piece of data they see, even when they say they aren't" is the new "Facebook are showing you ads based on overhearing everything you say through your phone's microphone."
If OpenAI are training on data that they said they wouldn't train on, or if Facebook are spying on us through our phone's microphones, they should be hauled in front of regulators and/or sued into the ground.
While Dropbox is not sending your data to OpenAI today, it could do so tomorrow with a simple change of its terms of service.
So could your bank, or credit card company, your phone company, or any other company that owns your data.