I don’t disagree but want to go on the record predicting this will collapse on itself spectacularly and OpenAI will still “fail” commercially

for the Cola Cola drinkers, the product goes from an infallible AI to with no ulterior motives to another Google that’s purpose is to sell you ads, but more creepily. it’s like if Coca Cola started adding a few milliliters of bleach to their product

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tensegrist 17 hours ago | parent [-]

normal people don't have the same expectations as you when it comes to how much a given service should know about them, is the thing

"how did X know whose profile you saw on Y service"

"the computer knows everything i do on the computer, what do you mean"

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jon-wood 17 hours ago | parent [-]

This isn’t backed by the constant conspiracy theories about voice assistants listening to everything you say and then farming that off to third party ad providers so that you see ads for things you’ve been discussing.

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solumunus 17 hours ago | parent [-]

People moan about that but it doesn’t change their consumer habits at all.

	▲	cgriswald 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I’m not certain about that, but it’s all very abstract to people. It is also tied to their phones for most people which they’d never give up anyway. The more direct connection on something they don’t (yet) value as much as they value their phones might be a bridge too far. An LLM feels like a person to a lot of people. It might be surprisingly difficult to avoid people feeling betrayed or creeped out by this “person”. No one has ever done this before and it doesn’t seem easy or like a straightforward win.
	▲	Aurornis 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think most people know it’s not actually true. It is odd how often I hear even technically people defend the idea that Instagram is listening to everything they say even while the phone is locked, sending it to Meta, and then influencing their ad delivery. You have to either have very little understanding of mobile apps and reverse engineering to believe that this is happening but nobody has been able to find proof yet. It’s right up there with people who believe conspiracies about everyday things like chemtrails. If you really though chemtrails were disbursing toxic mind control chemicals (or whatever they’re supposed to be this week) then you’d be going to great lengths to breathe only purified air and relocate to another location with fewer flight paths. Yet the chemtrail conspiracy theorists don’t change their behavior. They just like complaining and being angry, and it’s something they can bond with other angry complainers about.