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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I'm lead 365 admin for a major corporation and have been working with MS to identify if Copilot would be beneficial and secure for my org. Some major takeaways from my recent meetings with them:

There's two parts to Copilot. 1. Copilot 2. Copilot for 365.

The first is basically Chat GPT. It reaches out to the web to get info and essentially works as a search engine.

The 2nd part is internal only. It can do things like summarize meetings, compare documents, and search your emails. It abides by the same security, compliance, encryption, and DLP policies as the rest of your tenant.

You can open up access to one or both.

Government tenants are a unique case. There's a specific 365 license for government entities, and their offerings are different from other organizations. This news article isn't surprising - all new 365 offerings take a while before they're available to government licenses. It will eventually be available.

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Few questions about that, unless they're literally taking their model and putting it into your own box using it's own compute power, I don't see how that's possible. They can call it "your" copilot all they want but if they're reading your data and prompts and computing that on their own box then they're using your data, right?

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Major organizations use encryption where they hold the keys so Microsoft is unable to read their data. They can have thousands of servers running on Microsoft's Azure stack and yet Microsoft is unable to read the data that is being processed.

Thanks for the explanation

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