The Register asked Microsoft about the privacy implications and what happens to user data while an agent does its thing, but other than acknowledging our question, the company did not respond.
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Microsoft: That’s a great question. Thanks for asking it.
I'm sure it's in the TOS somewhere. You use the microslop, you agree to the microslop.
"Good question. Next question..."
Hey, mine is empty. Can anyone recommend something I could put in there to poison it?
Epstine files
Not a bad idea
Hey, mine is empty. Can anyone recommend something I could put in there to poison it?
A couple hundred million 0kb files?
That won’t poison an LLM exactly.
Theoretically this is a place to start. They probably have mitigations for many of these.
They probably have mitigations for many of these.
Have you seen the state of testing for Microsoft products nowadays? Or rather the apparently complete lack of testing.
I found this study, it looked promising but I think it only works on the one LLM they were targeting. Also they seem to be working to protect ai models so results they find will probably be implemented as ways to protect against poisoning. I guess intentional dataset poisoning hasn't come as far as I hoped
Interesting. Imagine if OneDrive users did this with the trigger phrase as the word “and” or some other general conjunction that is required for language to work.
A ton of folders
zip bomb
You could have a really simple Markov chain generator fill a gigabyte's worth of .txt files with nonsense sentences. At least that's "content" they have to parse.
All of my zero one drive files? heckin shoot
They’re stealing your nothing!
Yup, there it is. I’ve been saying it.
Everyone from individuals to Fortune 500s are storing their data on OneDrive and SharePoint in the cloud.
ML models (not necessarily LLMs) are incredible at finding patterns and targeted data points in huge data sets.
I wonder why they need all those data centers for all the AI workloads that barely anyone is using, or wants.
Hmm. Hmmmmmm. 🤔
The government, including the military, uses OneDrive and SharePoint too.
So, just need to prompt for a person's name and get to find the contents of all the files with that name in it?
It's like grep but it's killing us as a bonus.
It’s also less accurate and will make up results. So it has that going for it.
Surprise!!
I am so happy that Windows has become such shit that it made me, one of the most "lazy" people I know, switch to Linux. I hope they crash and burn but our society has done a good job not educating people on the tech they use every day. Tech illiterates don't really have options do they.
If only Linux wasn't shit when it came to DX12 on Nvidia gpu.
I mean yeah gamers still will have a harder time because some games won't work but that is dodgeable with dual boot, virtual machines or a dedicated gaming PC where windows slop can do less harm.
If only Nvidia wasn't shit when it came to linux support*
Don't post your cries to random forums that can do nothing about it, send them directly to Nvidia at info@nvidia.com or call 1-408-486-2000 and tell them you're a loyal customer who wants linux support or you'll go to AMD who does it well. The more that do that the more likely you'll actually get support for your hardware.
Time to upload the Epstein files onto one drive!
C'mon do it!
Teach the big machine that all the billionaires are pedos.
as somewhat ai curious person, in my experience, with at least small local llm (40-80b) they are absolutely shit at working with large texts, at best they can make a passable summary, contradictory information is ignored (if it's in two documents), document citations are pulled from the ass 1/3rd of the time (and the pulled info is equally dodgy, if it's pass/fail type on exactness), is copilot better than this?
If you have a subscription to any of these cloud services or want to continue using them, setup rclone with crypt (cryptomator is a more popular option it seems but paid) to locally encrypt files before uploading and shift all data to be uploaded through them, of course though only do this if absolutely necessary or free since of course one should not be paying these companies in the first place.
Cryptomator is FOSS.
True but it's currently developed by a private company and the mobile apps are paywalled, there are workarounds since it is FOSS but a bit of a hassle, it does seem easier to use though so good option for those who have the money and are willing to pay or trust and can utilize the workarounds properly, rclone has more features and more seamless after setup but is a bit harder to initially setup and needs a 3rd party GUI for Desktop and Mobile since it's CLI only.
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