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by hellojesus 749 days ago
Do you have any concern about the data you're feeding to the vendor serving your prompts?

I've had junior devs tell me they use chatgippity to combine excel workbooks, and when I confirm they're not self hosting a llm to do it, I ask if they think it's a good idea to hand over company data to openai. They don't care.

In a world of tight security, I find it astonishing that so many people willingly give away trade secrets to these companies, whom can sell it to any bidder if they choose.

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I do think it's fine yes, but I also am not giving it anything sensitive.
So you are not using Office 365?

Because our company does.

Has something changed with the service agreement? I was under the understanding that Microsoft didn't mine or sell to advertisers 365 data, at least for corporate accounts.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/wh...

But thats the point. You can use OpenAI through Azure and other means. If you trust MS (who has basically data from millions of companies) why would it not work out with OpenAI usage?