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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Hey, mine is empty. Can anyone recommend something I could put in there to poison it?
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.
zip bomb
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?
A ton of folders
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
All of my zero one drive files? heckin shoot
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!!
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?
Rufus let me install windows with a local account and debloat scripts let me nuke/hide OneDrive.
And, INB4 anyone says "switch to linux", I'm sorry but it just isn't viable while maintaining the same seamless experience for what I need. I hate Windows, but I also value my time.
If you value your time you should switch to Linux. Yes there’s a brief adjustment period, but especially now, that period is very short and well worth the initial effort. It’s not 2005 anymore, Linux has less jank than Windows or Mac OS now.
All good mate, we will be here for you when you are ready to take the plunge.
I'm 8 distro attempts in so far and have yet to not sink substantial time into driver and general usability issues.
In another life I'd be happy to sacrifice productivity to grind on fixing the issues, but presently it has real costs.
For now, I run Proxmox and a slew of linux containers and VMs - but still unfortunately use windows as my primary :/
My use case for Linux is very minimal, so I can't say I know your particular use case, but what drivers do you have issues with? Purely out of curiosity.
I just really need the seamless experience of running a new debloat script every month to stop whatever new spyware Microsoft is pushing. I value my time so much that I want to waste it fighting my operating system at every turn.
It's not that hard to stop windows, there are programs that block internet access by process, and windows only has so many of them. One drive doesn't boot on my PC, and if edge tried to open it auto-fails because edge is offline.