Nick Taylor: I guess "people's private PDFs" were one of the last sources of human-generated text to mine, so I'm not surprised this is happening. Furious, but not surprised. Like, how is "exfiltrate data and probe it for insights" distinguishable from malware?

I guess "people's private PDFs" were one of the last sources of human-generated text to mine, so I'm not surprised this is happening. Furious, but not surprised. Like, how is "exfiltrate data and probe it for insights" distinguishable from malware?

This morning, I opened a PDF to find Adobe Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. That led to a rabbit hole of finding all the places Acrobat’s AI Assistant has to be turned off. Here they are: www.wordsbywes.ink/a... #LLMs #AmEditing

Turning Off Adobe Acrobat's AI Assistant - Words by Weswww.wordsbywes.ink This morning, I opened a PDF to find Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. Since I frequently deal with unpublished manuscripts and other confidential documents for clients, I can’t have them processed by generative AI tools (and I don’t want my PDFs being read by LLMs either). So…

Or, in case of commercial documents, corporate espionage?

IKR? God, the insight you could gain.

This is why on-premise and private hosting is vital for any company generating and wanting to preserve IP. And has been for decades

I'm sure I remember a company trying to tell me it was more secure to use their cloud-based video production workflow than to run on-prem. Oh yeah, that was Adobe too!

Definitely selling that to any third party that’s paying

Better ROI

Time to write your countrys consumer rights places Time to write your countrys data security rights places If you are an eu citizen, time to write them too *angry dance*

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