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by ricardobeat 41 days ago
> for the legal workflows we see most

I'm a bit bothered by this line. Does it mean this is based on customer's sessions? Are they entitled to build knowledge bases for every profession, topic and workflow in the world using customer data?

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Yes they are training on your business's data so that their AI can replace your business later. If you don't believe it, name one thing they didn't train on.
It definitely looks like the old tale come true - at Microsoft people would warn against using Google because then Google could figure out what we're working on, since it was pretty easy to tell where a query was coming from.

Sounded far fetched back then, and on the face of it illegal, but now it's just common sense I imagine.

It's pretty clear to me that these systems have a massive potential for intelligence agencies as people move more and more of their internal thought process to an external tool.

And, of course, intelligence agencies are good at realizing potential.

> Does it mean this is based on customer's sessions?

Yes

> Are they entitled to build knowledge bases for every profession, topic and workflow in the world using customer data?

They certainly believe they are and they’re quite open about it.

It even has a name, Clio. Per their page it’s a “system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use”

Here’s their page on it: https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio

And in what country? They know that the law is different in every country right?
"Are (legally and morally) entitled" vs "act as if they are entitled"... yes, a big question.