They compensate you in the form of providing products like Bing for free. Same way that Facebook pays their bills by running ads.
Comment on Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI?
tux@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhy should a company get to use my work and data for free to train their AI, for which they’ll make a ton of money, without compensating me. At a minimum they should be informing me so I can make that choice with full knowledge.
This isn’t a university or educational research either, this is one of the largest companies in the world with Billions of dollars in annual revenue. And to top it off, I already have to pay them for their operating system and annually for their office suite. So not only am I paying them for their product, they’ll then steal my data to train an AI to try and sell that to us too?
That’s not even taking into account any concerns with “AI might replace me at my job” that a number of folks have.
wmassingham@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
In theory they shouldnt. Society has given in too much regarding what data can be used and here we are.
I think any personal information should not be allowed access by third parties or tech companies. Your personal information is just that…personal. Unfortunately, it is about bottom line profit.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not to mention the fact that if they include office products in this, its not just personal information.
A lot of IP gets produced in there, even if it’s not purchased or created within an enterprise license. So if they train on that they will be basically stealing corporate information that they definitely have no rights to.