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The real question is why would MS risk losing the business from Apple in such a context.

There are ways to set up incentives such that large corporations will follow the rules. There are myriad examples of this. But in most cases you can ask what is more profitable: Taking $1B+ a year from Apple for hosting an internal ChatGPT service from them, or maybe, if they're lucky, stealing trade secret that MS will never be able to compete against Apple with anyway?

This is all hypothetical; I just want to point out that these businesses are not just waiting to do evil things, they simply respond to incentives, like any business.



There could be some very juicy promotions in it for middle managers who secretly help themselves to a peek at that data and use it to make decisions

That's been a major problem at Amazon where they launch competitors to their biggest and most successful marketplace sellers' cash cows


I work in data privacy and grc. First, a random middle manager cannot simply peek at customer prod data, that’s seriously locked down. Second, attempting to do this would get you immediately terminated.




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