Let’s clear up one thing first: this is not a rant against AI. We are neither in favor nor against it. It’s a tool, and like all tools it has its use-case scenarios.
Our stance, expressed in this post, covers exactly one thing: the content of your files will never become AI-training material. Not for us, not for anyone we could sell it to.
Most vendors can offer you that only as a promise. A clause in a privacy policy, a line in their terms of service, a commitment that lasts until the company changes their mind, raises a new investment round, gets acquired, or sends you a thirty days’ notice that their terms are changing. Policies can be revised, it happens all the time.
Ours is a property of the architecture. Your files never reside on our infrastructure, and we hold no credentials into your storage. There is no corpus sitting in our cloud waiting for a change of heart, a new owner, or a tempting offer. We cannot feed your files to an AI agent of our own, and we cannot sell their contents to anybody, because we never hold them in the first place.
Here are two questions you should ask to your current managed file transfer vendor:
Can you technically read the contents of my files?
If your terms of service changed tomorrow, what would physically prevent you from using them or selling them?
Across most of this market the answer to the first question is YES, which turns the second question into a mere business decision. We are not accusing anyone of anything. The option simply exists for them, and it does not exist for us (by design).
If privacy is a requirement for you rather than a preference, SFTP.cloud is your most sensible option. A promise can be rewritten in an day. An architecture would have to be rebuilt from scratch.
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