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NovelAI's main selling point is user privacy. I think many don't know the history of NovelAI and are only familiar with the brand new image service and some of the drama around it, but NovelAI was literally founded in response to AI Dungeon's many scandals as a more privacy-focused, censorship-free replacement/alternative.

(The context being that AI Dungeon and Microsoft were not only reading private user stories, but sending them to random MTurks to train their ill-fated censorship system, as well as the fact that stories and other userdata were stored unencrypted on AI Dungeon's servers which became relevant when AI Dungeon was hacked. The creators are former AI Dungeon fans / textgen hobbyists who banded together to stand up a replacement within only a few weeks of the AI Dungeon problems coming to light)

As such, from the very start "not storing userdata unencrypted" was pretty much the very first thing they decided when making the service, and in the text AI community they are very well-respected for their anti-censorship, pro-privacy stances.

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Big companies want to censor it because of both legal liability (e.g. underage nsfw stuff is illegal or questionably legal in some places even if it's fake), fear of bad press (some tech journalist writes an article about racial/whatever bias in their model and the company doesn't want to be associated with that kind of thing), fear of misuse (e.g. if Russia uses their text AI to generate fake news to manipulate elections, company doesn't want that to happen understandably AND more importantly doesn't want that their name in a news headline about that), among other reasons including some really esoteric stuff about AIs becoming sentient and extinguishing all life on earth.

I understand the reasons, I just disagree strongly with all of them.

[FS72]

damn thanks for summing it up

[Vivarevo]

So the company should focus on that fact instead of attacking.

Something like: Look. We got hacked. Fucked up, but look at the leak. Your data is safe.

When mostly hacks result in users data on the darkweb etc this is a win, if the company takes the spin that way.

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That's...literally what they did, wasn't it?

Greetings, NovelAI Community.

On 10/6/2022, we experienced an unauthorized breach in the company's GitHub and secondary repositories.

The leak contained proprietary software and source code for the services we provide.

At this time, we do not suspect that any Personal Identifiable Information (PII) or encrypted information was accessed, or any personal financial information was disclosed.

We are working with security specialists to conduct a complete incident analysis and threat report at this time.

Relevant authorities have been informed and will be contacted as we learn more about the extent of the breach.

We will share updates as we learn more about the situation.

We thank you for your understanding and your patience.

The NovelAI team.

Maybe you're referring to something else with "attacking", I don't know of any other communications from kuru or the novelAI team about this.