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[–] 85 points 6 months ago (6 children)

"Accused of"?

That's how this stuff works. That's its purpose. Google is a data broker, as is most of Big Tech.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I would have thought the personal data would flow in the opposite direction tbh

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Much like the rancid toilet bowl it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)


    was it you who was doing the inappropriate bathroom wall art?

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  • [–] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    OpenAI, selling its users out while still not making a profit 🤣.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    Nooo?!! What? Who could have seen this coming? I'm shocked! /s

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    first_time.gif

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    [–] 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    If that's how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that's how they learn.

    I'm not surprised there are stupid and gullible people in the world. But, I am scared about how many there seem to be, now. Also, I was just reading /r/teachers wherein a teacher told a story about a 15-year-old who didn't understand how Leonardo DiCaprio could be in Romeo and Juliette because the play was written 500 years ago. Just clueless. If you want to remain optimistic about our future, do NOT read /r/teachers.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    If that's how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that's how they learn.

    Let's not engage in blaming the victims.

    There's no reason to treat the behavior of these corporations as if it were normal and inevitable, like they were a force of nature or something. Put all the blame where it belongs, on the people running these companies.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, nope! That would have been a good and fair argument 10 or 15 years ago. But today, these 'victims' are volunteers. The information is out there, multiple times per day. In my country we say something that roughly translates to English as 'if the river sounds, water is running'.

    The noise is there, has been for over a decade. If they choose to remain ignorant and not even try to find out what all the noise is about, that's on them. And if they do go after the noise to not be caught unaware, and still keep giving out everything to big tech, even worse.

    Having said that, it's not 'victim blaming' when the 'victim' is guilty.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sorry, but what?

    If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?

    Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?

    Because I'm paying for something?

    Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?

    I don't know, it's probably circumstantial.

    Probably a lot of the data being shared is from chats, but not necessarily all of it. We know that OpenAI scrapes the Internet at large for training data, which would include data sets of publicly leaked PII (such as the OPM breach). It's entirely possible that the data OpenAI is sharing about users was not given to them voluntarily by those users, but has simply been aggregated, analyzed and correlated by their AI tools.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    If it's public, it's a given that Facebook and Google has all of that on you already.

    It's almost a decade since Zucc said in front of congress that they do shadow profiles, LLMs are not going to change that.

    What I do worry about is all personal stuff people overshare to the LLMs. From health, mental to financial and other secrets.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    No surprise really, that was always part of the deal. Google and Meta are relatively good buyers, if you consider that our data is also being sold to dark companies we've never heard of, or are difficult to trace back to their owners, or have hazy political involvement etc... Tech companies big or small will sell our data to whomever pays - see terms and conditions or whatever.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    No, really? Fucktwits.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Who's the bigger fool? The one handing over your personal information to Meta/Google, or the one giving it to OpenAI in the first place?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    Just had an idea… what if federal agencies of governance, like FTC, FBI, NSA, … had (1) immediate leadership voted on during elections (2) protections from being removed by anyone other than public vote / impeachment, (3) funding guarantees by ensuring all approved funds go through independent, highly secured processes. The administration shouldn’t be able to take control of agencies or defund ones they can’t. Better, we should be able to control their priorities — via control of their leadership. Maybe in such a world, we could already be prosecuting CEOs.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Scam Altman

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    I'm probably not exempt despite never signing up for paid chatgpt. Still kind of shitty, and unsurprising.

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Lol. Your mom is accused of handing over your intimate personal information to your dad and grandma.

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's okay, apparently a few billionaire heads are worth the privacy & dignity of humanity.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Long story short;

    There's a ton of things people can do with heads: I prefer when people use them for good, like when you have them and use them while they are still attached for kindness or generosity, teaching or creating. Good stuff, ya know.

    I have heard stories about people doing the opposite of these things and getting wreckt for it. Like, worse than guillotines. One dude was beheaded and had his head stuffed up his butt and draggedth around the streets (or so the legend goes). But these are things that should be avoided. Imagine if the bad guys were like the fictional characters (such as Scrooge) and started throwing frozen Turkey out the windows at childrens or whatever.

    ...that would be cool.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Surprised Pikachu Face

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    No no no, he didn't just hand it over, I'm sure he got paid handsomely

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Oh that's why I always had to look up my gf's issues on my account. Well, let them be confused 🤷🏼

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What? Sam Altman doing something untrustworthy!?!

    Seriously they're an ad company now. They sell everything to meta and Google. That's how ad tech works

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Is this even untrustworthy? I haven’t looked into what Sam and his company say very much, but I for sure trusted that the hallucinating plagiarism machine that has the ability to cross so, so many different coding boundaries would definitely at least leak anything I have to it, and at worst actively use it sell it save it propagate it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago
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    No shit. This how the worlds been for more than a decade now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago