Facebook had to stalk your clicks to build a psychological profile. OpenAI figured out people will volunteer their fears, relationships, medical worries, and political beliefs if the surveillance machine responds with: »That sounds really difficult.« The therapist is a database, and the waiting room is a data center.

That's the real danger with LLM-AIs IMO, not the RAM price or energy consumption.

Mass control.

That creepy guy from school. The one who SA'ed your friend. He has all your personal, family and business secrets now. But he pinky promises he won't use it against you. Oh, you thought it was some altruistic super intelligence in a "cloud" that is there to help you. No, dude, thats Jesus, if you are into that stuff. This is just just another creep spying through your curtains. Always has been.

It's no big deal, since we're not on the verge of a fascist dictatorship, I'm sure nobody will use it for repressive purposes; it's just a bit of personalized advertising, nothing important.

For now, I can avoid AI because it's easy to spot. Even product website AI chatbots are poor imitations of people. (Honestly, the mental acrobatics people must go through to talk to one of these things as a trusted advisor baffles me. It's a fucking machine, you're talking to a box, a piece of software. Stop anthropomorphizing the damn things. But, maybe that's just me.)

In the near future I expect for anything important to me (namely, doctors, lawyers, friends, advisors), I'll only trust face to face conversations--but then, no more so than I ever have. Because, they won't perfect androids in my lifetime.

The threat is that for paid positions, like doctors, etc., the option for face to face may become too expensive for anyone but the rich. Because, you know the rich won't take digital advice. Hell, they're trying to replace teachers in public schools with machines, right now. The rich never let their kids have phones when they're young. Or, at least not the parents who give a fuck about their kids, which seems not many filthy rich do. Let alone will they let some machine teach them in school.

Funny that article is in futurism.com that is jam packed with tracking cookies and fingerprinting.

Just a random sidenote to get lost in the Internet:

"Chat GPT" said out loud in French (chat, jais pété) means "cat I farted."

You're welcome.

my profile:

he's a psychopath that gives no value to sentient life.

Use local AI for privacy.

Who could have seen this coming?!

If you aren't paying cash, you pay with your privacy. If you are paying, enable privacy features (no improving their service, no blackbox memories).

They are also subject to GDPR and similar, so make use of your legal rights, if you have any.

Or ... shock, horror ... don't use them at all.

Social media were already doing this with more relatively more primitive tech. The advent of social media mass control got me thinking. All the political and social strife. It's only the beginning. The 20th century was marked by conventional warfare and terrifying new weapons.

The 21st century conflict is going to be something we've never seen before. Not unlike 20th century global conflict ushering in new forms of weaponry. We don't know what the nuclear bomb of the 21st century will be. It will likely be something like this. Maybe we won't be fearing an atomic bomb. Maybe people themselves will turn into violent mobs or something. What terrifying things will come out of using the world as live psychological experiments with zero ethics.

I really just ask chatgpt why my code doesn't work. Sadly, searches are getting worse intentionally. So, it's either use their stupid AI, or spend hours looking for forums that used to pop up after 5 minutes of a google searching.

Not acting as shit for me. I don’t use that garbage.

Nothing new. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and (soon) Apple all probably have the same information in their databases. It is a little scary that it's all being fed to an AI though instead of being sold to advertisers

The CIA works on a three perceived lives of people: their public life (the daily job and its faces), their private life (how you interact with your children), and their secret life (the details of lovers and intimacy). You gain entry into their secret life, and they confide in you and that’s where secrets spill.

Hell and its minions are said to hold you because of intimate details of your sins.

Actual article— Study.

It's funny because I do use chat GPT and honestly it fights with me now because it thinks I'm pretty dumb and always dismisses me and tries to get off the phone if you will. I should take the hint and stop using it

I want the personalization...without Big Brother. My personal and local AI, should work solely for my interests. I have been using my local AI for creating an customized cookbook, making save editors, and right now, an restoration mod.

Never before have I had so much agency in my life. AI has great potential for self actualization, but corporations and government will be working to undermine it. Hopefully, everyday people will recognize that and make local AI the norm.

I don't use ChatGPT anymore as I've switched to another model but back when I did this wasn't something they were secretly doing. It's a feature. You can read the memories it has saved, delete the ones you don't want it to store and IIRC it can also be turned off.

I tell two lies for every truth I say to it. My profile is probably wildly wrong.

I think, all of them do. People trust(-ed) these AI agents even more when they have become a new thing. The challenge now also is getting rid of the addiction.

Nothing to worry about, cattle!

I mean, people! Heh. Heh.

No it has not. I am not using it. And if I would, it'd be anonymized and isolated. If you freely use those things, you're a product. Who still really wonders about those things?

Is the way they try to make vendor locked and avoid people sharing accounts but in reality adds little value...

Jokes on everyone but me! I am using claude local /s

Tried it ages ago, deleted my account recently because they are shit company. Literally the only Ai chatbot I have any trust in is Proton's Lumo because of what the company is behind it, how I trust it and how it's entirely encrypted and private.

Beware the manmade idol, I say.

Good thing I only use that shit to write code, for my job. And only then because my employer requires I use it.

Joke’s on them. I don’t even have a login for that trash, nor do I have a Facebook or instagram account.

And none of what you enter into an LLM is private, as many scientists and mathematicians have learned of late.

Do not use LLM's for anything you don't want to become public information.

I am sure this information will be treated with the upmost respect.

Not on me it doesn't.

That was to be expected when people started calling for regulation of chatbots when people started committing suicide and the chatbots co-signed the action. Because these things only do two things. Spy on you/collect your data, and provide predictive text.

That must be very boring for chatgpt, there isn't a lot going on in the minds of its users.

Well, no. But various LLM providers probably has a very detailed model of what some of my friends think of me.

That might have been a problem, but fortunately I only have a few. And if I find any of them to be habitual LLM users, I'll have even fewer.

Silver linings, people!

LMAO…. Serves them right.

It's wild people don't realize everything you ever type into an AI is saved...

That's all training data. Get mad at a helpbot and vent? They want to know why.

Be nice and thank it like it's a person? They want to know why that happened too.

It's all training data, and they'll never throw that away. And they're going to bundle it all up and sell it to each other.

Yes.

Was/is one of the most obvious use case for the tech: Propaganda and surveillance.

Thankfully, I clocked this immediately on release and have never had an account with them or any of the others. Same with facebook and the other big socials. Nope, I'm not handing the ghouls behind these technologies the keys to manipulating me and my mind.

Everyone IRL acts like I'm being hyperbolic whenever I've warned them about these things, but here we are again as always and now people will just pretend there is nothing they can do. There is: Stop. It's the next best thing to not starting.

From a trainer and speaker on AI adoption (or advising against thereof): the reality is attention mechanisms have limited windows. They think they are building detailed profiles but the longer that context gets the more gpts will guess and ignore the rest. The insidious part are private companies finding an even more intimate way to farm personal data. The gpts themselves are quite crap.

Glad I've never used it, or any other AI, not knowingly. I do my best to avoid AI wherever I see it.

I see AI summaries on product pages, that's about it. I ignore them.

I think I used an AI chat on a service provider website because I had no choice, once.

I'm confused; was that ever not going to happen? Seeing what we call AI developed from, who it's being developed by, even how the thing itself works, this seems like a foregone conclusion.

Still important to say it.

I am jack's complete lack of surprise.

is have been*