Comment on Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare

• TRBoom@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unless someone has released something new while I haven’t been paying attention, all the gen AIs are essentially frozen. Your use of them can’t impact the actual weights inside of the model.

  If it seems like it’s remember things is because of the actual input of the LLM is larger than the input you will usually give it.

  For instance lets say the max input for a particular LLM is 9096 tokens. The first part of that will be instructions from the owners of the LLM to prevent their model from being used for things they don’t like. Lets say the first 2000 tokens. That leaves 7k or so for a conversation that will be ‘remembered’.

  Now if someone was really savvy, they’d have the model generate summaries of the conversation and stick them into another chunk of memory, maybe another 2000 tokens worth, that way it will seem to remember more than just the current thread. That would leave you with 5000 tokens to have a running conversation.

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  • dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microsoft is almost certainly recording these summarization requests for QA and future training runs; that’s where the leakage would happen.

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    • TRBoom@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      100% agree. At this point I am assuming everything sent through their servers is actively being collected for LLM training.

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    • SirHaxalot@nord.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is kind of assuming the worst case scenario though. You wouldn’t assume that QA can read every email you send through their mail servers ”just because ”

      This article sounds a bit like engagement bait based on the idea that any use of LLMs is inherently a privacy violation. I don’t see how pushing the text through a specific class of software is worse than storing confidential data in the mailbox though.

      That is assuming that they don’t leak data for training but the article doesn’t mention that.

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      • edm@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Always assume the worst, I gaurentee it is usually that bad in reality. Companies absolutely hate spending money on IT and security is always an after thought. API logs for the production systems that contain your full legal name, DOB, SSN, and home address? Yea wide open and accessible by anyone. Production datafabses with employee SSN, address, salary information? Same thing, look up how much the worthless management is making and cry.

        Booz Allen just got shit on because of the dude they hired who specifically sought out consulting for the IRS so he could steal Trumps IRS records.

        home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0371

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Littlejohn

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      • dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is some pathetic chuddery you’re spewing…

        You wouldn’t assume that QA can read every email you send through their mail servers ”just because”

        I absolutely would, and Microsoft explicitly maintains the right to do that in their standard T&C, both for emails and for any data passed through their AI products.

        www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement#14s_AIS…

        v. Use of Your Content. As part of providing the AI services, Microsoft will process and store your inputs to the service as well as output from the service, for purposes of monitoring for and preventing abusive or harmful uses or outputs of the service.

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why would that make you an asshole?

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  • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve noticed growing opposition to critical thoughts about the sick and twisted nature of ai and the people who are in the cult.

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• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  LLMs are stateless. The model itself stays the same. Doesn’t mean they’re not saving the data elsewhere, but the LLM does not retain interactions.

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