This really needs to be hit with the GDPR hammer. Microsoft have not obtained consent for this.

mosura 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why would the EU possibly object to this? It is exactly what they want.

baby_souffle 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This really needs to be hit with the GDPR hammer. Microsoft have not obtained consent for this.

At best they'd just disable it for EU... assuming they didn't successfully argue "it was in the ToS ..."

But the EU mandates watermarking of AI content.

	▲	jkaplowitz 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As the article explained, the EU does not mandate a prompt-specific GUID, only the ability to identify the content as AI-generated. The highly privacy-invasive level of provenance tracking which Microsoft has added goes beyond the EU’s new mandates.

Watermarking ai generated stuff is mandated by EU

	▲	drdexebtjl an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It doesn’t need to be a personally identifiable watermark.
	▲	thayne 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do they require the watermark to be a unique token that can be associated with PII?