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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
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One of my least favorite things about a lot of current tech discourse is that a writer will spend thousands of words telling you why something is a bad idea but at the end say “but its probably not a big deal.” 🤷🏿‍♂️

Shh, ChatGPT. That’s a Secret.
Shh, ChatGPT. That’s a Secret.

Your chatbot transcripts may be a gold mine for AI companies.

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It’s almost always a big deal.

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Yes, OpenAI, a company that famously acts in ethical ways in order to protect their reputation.

For now, the most dystopian of these scenarios are largely hypothetical. A company like OpenAI, with a reputation to protect, surely isn’t going to engineer its chatbots to swindle a divorced man in distress. Nor does this mean you should quit telling ChatGPT your secrets. In the mental calculus of daily life, the marginal benefit of getting AI to assist with a stalled visa application or a complicated insurance claim may outweigh the accompanying privacy concerns. This dynamic is at play across much of the ad-supported web. The arc of the internet bends toward advertising, and AI may be no exception.
It’s easy to get swept up in all the breathless language about the world-changing potential of AI, a technology that Google’s CEO has described as “more profound than fire.” That people are willing to so easily offer up such intimate details about their life is a testament to the AI’s allure. But chatbots may become the latest innovation in a long lineage of advertising technology designed to extract as much information from you as possible. In this way, they are not a radical departure from the present consumer internet, but an aggressive continuation of it. Online, your secrets are always for sale.
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Hypervisible
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
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