{"id":40331,"date":"2023-08-14T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40331"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:40:15","slug":"grammarlygo-training-on-user-content-with-questionable-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/grammarlygo-training-on-user-content-with-questionable-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"GrammarlyGO Training on User Content With Questionable Opt Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/blog\/grammarlygo-augmented-intelligence\/\">Rahul Roy-Chowdhury<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/blog\/grammarlygo-augmented-intelligence\/\">\n<p>GrammarlyGO provides on-demand generative AI communication assistance directly in the apps where people write. Whether in an email thread or a long-form document, GrammarlyGO is right there with you and your teams during the writing process. GrammarlyGO understands context to quickly generate high-quality, task-appropriate writing and revisions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/front-end.social\/@fox\/110846484782705013\">Karolina Szczur<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37042779\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/front-end.social\/@fox\/110846484782705013\"><p>any product i&rsquo;m using that announces AI features makes me instantly suspicious about privacy &amp; security of my data. perfect example? grammarly.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p> i immediately contacted support asking:<\/p><ul><li>how it was trained<\/li><li>can i opt out<\/li><\/ul><p>it took me a while to get an honest answer but the <em>ONLY<\/em> way you can opt out is to pay for a <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.masto.host\/frontendsocial\/media_attachments\/files\/110\/846\/481\/784\/358\/681\/original\/02badf707f171105.png\">business subscription for 500+ people<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@suha\/110860810624160582\">Suha<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37073939\">Vocalize4754<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@suha\/110860810624160582\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m Grammarly&rsquo;s CISO.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to our genAI features, we use Microsoft Azure as our LLM provider and don&rsquo;t allow Azure, or any third party, to use our customers&rsquo; data to train their models&mdash;this is contractually mandated. For text analyzed by Grammarly to provide revision suggestions (like adjusting tone or making text more concise), we may retain randomly sampled, anonymized, and de-identified data to improve the product. This data is disassociated from user accounts and ONLY used in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve devoted a ton of time and resources to developing methods that ensure the training data is anonymized and de-identified. And any Grammarly user (Free, Premium, Business) can view the data associated with their account by requesting a personal data report from us.<\/p>\n<p>Re: opt-out: When we go through a security review with a business, if requested, that business can completely opt out of Grammarly training on their de-identified and anonymized data&mdash;opt-out is not limited to a 500+ license size.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems to directly contradict what Szczur was told by customer support.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t see how viewing data associated with your account would be helpful if the worry is that the text isn&rsquo;t properly cleaned before going into the anonymized soup. If they don&rsquo;t store where it came from, you won&rsquo;t be able to see which text you contributed.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/14\/zoom-tos-allowed-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out\/\">Zoom ToS Allowed Training AI on User Content With No Opt Out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/24\/chatgpt-is-ingesting-corporate-secrets\/\">ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/is-grammarly-a-keylogger\/\">Is Grammarly a Keylogger?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: GrammarlyGO provides on-demand generative AI communication assistance directly in the apps where people write. Whether in an email thread or a long-form document, GrammarlyGO is right there with you and your teams during the writing process. GrammarlyGO understands context to quickly generate high-quality, task-appropriate writing and revisions. Karolina Szczur (via Hacker News): any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-08-14T18:40:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"d21eb28c-3bb0-41d4-a33d-bc8cf728df40","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-08-14T18:40:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0h6yjDuwQdSjPbyM9yjfQA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,2150,30,32,2223,355],"class_list":["post-40331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-grammarly","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40332,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40331\/revisions\/40332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}