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  • This part applies to all customers:

    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.

    And while Microsoft has many variations of licensing terms for different jurisdictions and market segments, what they generally promise to opted-out enterprise customers is that they won’t use their inputs to train “public foundation models”. They’re still retaining those inputs, and they reserve the right to use them for training proprietary or specialized models, like safety-filters or summarizers meant to act as part of their broader AI platform, which could leak down the line.

    That’s also assuming Microsoft are competent, good-faith actors — which they definitely aren’t.


  • 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.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement#14s_AIServices

    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.

    We don’t own Your Content, but we may use Your Content to operate Copilot and improve it. By using Copilot, you grant us permission to use Your Content, which means we can copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate, and reformat it, and we can give those same rights to others who work on our behalf.

    We get to decide whether to use Your Content, and we don’t have to pay you, ask your permission, or tell you when we do.



  • Why do we pretend like it’s necessary to have a CIA as part of the U.S. government? Between the nepotism and complete lack of public accountability they justify by claiming it’s necessary to “protect America,” they might as well just be a private corporation.

    It really seems like the entire purpose of the agency is just to help rich people in the U.S. do fucked up shit at home and around the globe to destroy democracy in the name of “spreading democracy.”

    There’s a book I love called The Very Best Men by Evan Thomas that shares this thesis. The author is a well-regarded Washington journalist and insider who was given access to the CIA’s archives.

    He starts off by playing the title straight, humanizing his main subjects, explaining their ideological motives and justifications, and playing up their esteemed credentials and education. Then he goes into the practical effects of their actions and shows that in practice, they were terrible people who pumped out a steady stream of incompetent gaffes, own-goals, and international crimes.

    There’s a very similar vibe to the Epstein files: The shadowy kabbalic figures were, in the cold light of day, grade A morons and it’s a miracle they had any success covering their tracks at all.











  • Did I miss something? They didn’t post any real evidence at all unless there was a link I didn’t find.

    What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.

    I’m both an HN user of more than a decade, AND a massive HN hater. I’m predisposed to assume the worst, but there’s very little meat to this allegation.