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2026-08-06 17:42 UTC

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt I'd assume it's set up basically the same as Microsoft's - it's able to read and summarize for you, documents you have access to. So if I asked it the same questions the employees did, I would not get any sensitive answers because I (and thus the AI agent "acting on my behalf" even though I never asked it to) don't have access to documents that answer the question for me.

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  • @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-08-06 17:46

    @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt in a lot of corporate environments this is causing panic because their storage is full of documents that are supposed to be confidential to only a small group of people but the permissions are wide open to the whole org - any "confidentiality" rests in the fact that no one has time to read the thousands of pages of boring crap they have access to but aren't supposed to, to find a few nuggets of sensitive info. Then suddenly the AI agent can answer questions it shouldn't...

    Open ##5390116

  • @dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt this was not "employees"

    Open ##5390120