Microsoft Threatens To Restrict Data From Rival AI Search Tools
It was just a matter of time when AI related problems will come to the surface. In this case, problems are Microsoft customers who take internet-search data from Bing search to feed their AI tools. It violates the terms of their agreement. So, let’s see what happened.
Violating The Terms Of The Contract
Rival search engines can use internet-search data from Bing search index but on specific terms and by signing a contract. In case of any misuse, Microsoft can restrict or even forbid BIng search index for rivals.
Two customers, probably thinking that Microsoft won’t notice such ‘’theft’’ have used Bing data to feed their AI tools. This is something that really violates the terms of their contract, which makes Microsoft legally justified to completely restrict data.
How did Microsoft react to this violation
Microsoft Corporation wasn’t happy with that, because they reached the media as soon as they figured out what’s happening. According to Bloomberg media, Microsoft is really serious about its threat, and even considering total license termination with rivals.
Other reasons why they’re so furious is that they're falling behind in these AI-tools. Microsoft upgraded the Bing search engine with AI-tools last month, while Google did it earlier. Yusuf Mehdi, the Microsoft executive, said that their AI-search tool would be even more powerful in Microsoft Edge than Google ChatGPT in Google browser.
Microsoft And Its Rivals
There's a saying which says that it’s healthy to have rivals. This constant rivalry is healthy because it makes you not behave like a sloth, always lazy and thinking there’s no space for improvement. However, improving while stealing from your rivals, isn’t a key to success, but rather a downgrade.
I hope that Microsoft will settle this misuse with its customers, and that there won’t be any more similar issues. Microsoft could have revealed the name of the customers, but it rather gave us and them the warning that it’s better to watch out for our actions if we don’t want to make them angry.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.