[r_thambapillai]

The incentive for first party tool providers to do this is going to be huge, whether its Slack, Google, Microsoft, or really any other SaaS tool. Ultimately, if business want to avoid getting commoditized by their vendors, they need be in control of their data, and their AI strategy. And that probably ultimately means turning off all of these small-utility-very-expensive-and-might-ruin-your-business features, and actually creating a centralized, access controlled, well governed knowledge base which you can plug any open source or black box LLM, from any provider.

[jonnycomputer]

"commoditized by their vendors" is exactly the phrase I was looking for. It's why I wanted my co to self-host Mattermost instead of using Slack.

[arresin]

It’s definitely a moral hazard (/opportunity). As a reminder, by default on windows 11 Microsoft syncs your files to their server.

[Liquix]

all your files? no way that cozy of a blanket statement can be true. if you kept cycling in drives full of /dev/random you could fill up M$ servers with petabytes of junk? sounds like an appealing weekend project