Oh, I’m very aware. My own (EU!) company has ISO certifications that “guarantee” our customers that all their data is perfectly protected.

It is not. We, among other things, have plaintext user/password combos in scripting. Certain logs are certainly not being processed lawfully.

It’s also not so bad as to be terrible but it still irks me a lot that we’re essentially lying to our users.

Thanks for the info!

No, the AI advised me to contact my direct superior and his superior, but mentioned their names.

I have never provided it with this information, so that means it has a lot more access to our information than is officially known. Technically we aren’t even supposed to input anything that could possibly be identifying, again for GDPR purposes, so I have no idea where Copilot got the information from.

I assume that MS lets companies tailor their instance of Copilot to a certain degree and maybe it was fed an organigram of the entire company, but AFAIK this is already not allowed under current legislation. Or maybe it is and I’m just a modern luddite.

Regardless, I’ll be even more careful about what I use Copilot for from this point forward.

Today I was “talking” to copilot asking about how to tackle a certain issue. The fucking thing replied with my manager and his manager’s NAMES telling me to reach out to them. Of course I was aware that Copilot’s primary function is not as an AI assistant but as a surveillance tool, but working in the EU, this still surprised me a lot.

That said, under the protections the EU affords me, I will absolutely continue to use Copilot for the most inane possible tasks. I know that they know, but they can’t act on it without breaking GDPR.

Your move, corporation.

Sure would be nice if Creative could deliver a driver fix for my soundcard’s channel swapping. Thing isn’t even a decade old.

I accidentally read the second to last comic as “hands out fleshlights”. Would also work.

There’s another consideration: it has to be as cheap as possible to produce. And that explains the advent of reality TV.

You can give yourself an instant raise by working 50% of your usual pace. BAM your pay per hour just doubled.