• doug@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

    “Hey Copilot, what have Putin and Trump been exchanging emails about?”

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    For clarity, it’s only being summarized for the users that wrote it, it’s not leaking them to everyone. A comedically inept bug to allow though, holy shit.

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      15 days ago

      AITA for understanding that as meaning in order to “summarize” the data the AI read it entirely and will never be instructed to “forget” that data

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        15 days ago

        In this case there’s no evidence showing that it’s being spread widely - the bug reports are entirely about users being shown their own content. If you have something to dispute that I’m all ears.

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    Even in the wide world of dubiously useful AI chatbots, Copilot really stands out for just how incompetent it is. The other day I was working on a PowerPoint presentation, and one of the slides included a photo with a kind of cluttered looking background. Now, I can probably count the number of things that AI is genuinely good at on one hand, and context aware image editing trends to be one of them, so I decided to click the Copilot button that Microsoft now has built directly into PowerPoint and see what happens. A chat window popped up and I concisely explained what I wanted it to do: “please remove the background from the photo on slide 5.” It responded on that infuriating obseqious tone that they all have and assured me that it would be happy to help with my request just as soon as I uploaded my presentation.

    What?

    The chatbot running inside an instance of PowerPoint with my presentation open is asking me to “upload” my presentation? I explained this to it, and it came back with some BS about being unable to access the presentation because a “token expired” before requesting again that I upload my presentation. I tried a little longer to convince it otherwise, but it just kept very politely insisting that it was unable to do what I was asking for until I uploaded my presentation.

    Eventually I gave up. The photo wasn’t that bad anyway.

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      15 days ago

      Was the presentation saved in OneDrive? I’ve seen similar responses during my brief experiments with the tech. Copilot seems to be basically just an iframe in the Office apps rather than actually integrated.

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    15 days ago

    I yesterday logged into my very old and dead M$ account. Holy fuck the experience of forced ads, timed pop ups, and thank good all of this fucking sloppy shit will be now deleted on my part. I’m not going near that diarrhea shit anymore unless paid.

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    15 days ago

    Another day, another hitherto unimaginable cyber security crisis, brought to you by ‘AI’.

    … maybe one day they’ll find the seahorse emoji.

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    Wouldn’t that rather be an MS Graph bug? Why give copilot all mails and have it decide what to summarise and what not? —> I’m sure that’s not the way it’s implemented. I don’t understand the framing of the article tbh. „AI bad“ seems to click well.

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    I used their AI for months, until I read a comparison between multiple AIs and I found out it gave bad results. I thought all of them were very stubborn giving the same wrong answer all the time, but ChatGPT changed my mind. Now I can’t even imagine such ineffective tool having access to sensitive information like emails.