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Worth Reading – Enterprise AI Has a Data Problem, Not a Model Problem
If I’m being honest, every time I hear someone say they don’t like Copilot because ChatGPT or Claude is just better, I have to wonder about that. The models available inside Copilot aren’t that different, but there is one big difference. Copilot has access to all your email, OneDrive documents, SharePoint files, etc.Â
That’s been a selling point for Microsoft, but it might also explain why the results differ. Your data might be making the results worse than when you use a different tool that isn’t connected to your Microsoft environment.Â
What is your AI using as its source of truth?Â
Linked – AI data readiness: C-suite fantasy, big IT problem
This might seem like a new problem, but it’s an old problem that shows up when trying to do something new.Â
There is a lack of a strategy for data security and data rot. Too many organizations have punted when deciding what data to keep versus delete and haven’t made the hard decisions about implementing data security internally. Now, they want to use AI, but the AI is accessing all that outdated data and exposing the places where security wasn’t correctly implemented. So, it becomes an IT problem to fix.Â
Worth Reading – Workplace Abuse, PTSD and Employer Duty of Care
Employees dealing with trauma outside of work often carry that trauma with them into work, and we need resources to help them navigate that. What do we offer people experiencing trauma at work who carry that trauma into the rest of their lives?Â
Maybe the better question is, what do we owe them?Â
Linked: You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher explains how to trust your instincts to foil the attacks
And so, I wonder if those yearly, semi-annual, quarterly, video training would be a lot more effective if we also shared specific examples of people who got phished, and how they fell for it?
Like most things in life, it’s one thing to hypothetically know that something could happen, but it’s quite another to know that it did happen to someone we know. Someone just like us. That makes it so much more real in our minds, and it appears to make a huge difference in how users might approach phishing attempts.
Linked: Brave browser and Internet Archive team up to revive dead pages
This is actually pretty cool. “The web browser, Brave, now has a feature that revives dead web pages with the help of Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine which stores snapshots of billions of web pages. As time goes on, more and more pages go offline and can cause a bit of a headache for those who…
