I wanted to finally turn off that checkbox a few days ago and couldn't find it anywhere. The entire page it's supposed to be on didn't exist. I had no idea whether that meant I'm automatically opted in or out.

Thing is, if they use my dropbox content, it may be more a risk for them than for me; it's mostly PDFs I bought in webshops; stuff copyrighted by other people than me. My consent isn't that relevant; they need the consent of the actual copyright holders. And they don't have that.

This is the big problem with all these tech companies suddenly realise new ways to mine all that data that they happen to have access to. The data isn't theirs, and it's quite possibly not their users' either.

Jumping in to clarify some confusion. The AI third-party toggle is only visible to users who have access to our AI features. If you don’t see the AI third-party toggle, then you can’t view or use Dropbox AI features. To reiterate, neither this nor any other setting automatically or passively sends any Dropbox customer data to a third-party AI service. Please see our Help Center article for a list of those with access to Dropbox AI features: https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-...

FWIW, the "AI" tab indeed no longer appears on my EU-based "plus" account and the previous direct link to that settings tab (https://www.dropbox.com/account/ai) now redirects to /account/general.

The recent incident involving Dropbox's third-party AI sharing has sparked concerns within the user community. Despite the removal of the AI sharing tab from account settings, it has come to light that the AI settings remain active by default. This development raises significant privacy concerns, indicating that Dropbox might be attempting to downplay the issue rather than addressing the root problems associated with AI sharing.

This situation prompts a broader discussion on transparency, user consent, and data privacy in cloud services. Users are left questioning the adequacy of measures taken to safeguard their information and whether the platform is prioritizing user privacy appropriately. As the community voices its concerns, it underscores the importance of companies proactively addressing privacy issues and fostering trust through transparent communication and user-friendly privacy controls.

Friendly reminder that your company probably pays significant money to dropbox for something you dont use.

At my last company I proposed an audit of our cloud storage services. IT emailed everyone to close their corporate account if they absolutely didn't have to use Dropbox (or move files to personal account if they were storing personal files).

It turned out that most paid a accounts existed because someone had shared something with an employer who then used his corporate email to create a dropbox account. We ended up saving A LOT of money by closing those.

Still there for me on my Team account: https://www.dropbox.com/team/admin/settings/ai but hidden on my personal account

I’m confused - how do we “un-hide” the setting to switch it off? I’m in the US, with a Dropbox Basic (Personal) plan, and I don’t have any AI settings available.

I'm completely out of the loop on the current state of Dropbox but from context clues I'm guessing it's been plowed under by enshittification?

If the money men spent any real amount of time with an LLM, they would not be pressuring every enterprise under the sun to find a use case.

Tell HN:

Anyone figured out how we see the hidden setting?