| ▲ | jjcm 8 hours ago |
| Some do, some don't. The reality is there are some of us who truly just don't care. The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me". Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too. |
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| ▲ | subsection1h 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too. Hacker News in 2026. |
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| ▲ | TeMPOraL 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Paranoia is justified if it actually serves some purpose. Staying paralyzed and not doing anything because Someone Is Reading Your Data is not serving much of anything. Hint: those Someones have better things to do. LLM vendors really don't care about your bank statements, and if they were ever in a position to look, they'd prefer not to have them, as it just creates legal and reputational risks for them. | | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > as it just creates legal and reputational risks for them. Unfortunately I laughed reading this as there is never neither reputation nor legal consequences in the US of A. They can leak your entire life into my console including every account and every password you have and all PII of your entire family and literally nothing would happen… everything is stored somewhere and eventually will be used when “growth” is needed. some meaningless fines will be paid here and there but those bank statements will make their way to myriad of business that would drool to see them | | |
| ▲ | TeMPOraL 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The issue of consequences of data leaks, though real and something I find outrageous, is orthogonal to this discussion. When talking about sending personal or sensitive data to AI companies, people are not worrying about data leaks - they're worrying about AI company doing some kind of Something to it, and Somehow profit off selling their underpants. (And yes, no one really says what that Something or Somehow may be, or how their underpants play into this.) | | |
| ▲ | bdangubic an hour ago | parent [-] | | sorry I did not mean leak, I meant “leak” people should 1,000,000% be worried about AI company doing something kind of something with it which they are doing as we speak and if not now will be profiting soon-ish |
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| ▲ | hypfer 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I mean eventually, some adversarial entity will use this complete lack of defenses to hurt even the most privileged people in some way, so. Unless of course they too turn to apathy and stop caring about being adversarial, but given the massive differences in quality of life between the west and the rest of the world, I'm not so sure about this. That is of course a purely probabilistic thing and with that hard to grasp on an emotional level. It also might not happen during ones own lifetime, but that's where children would usually come in. Though, yeah, yeah, it's HN. I know I know. |
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| ▲ | nearlyepic 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too. This is such an incredibly loser attitude and is why we can't have nice things. |
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| ▲ | keybored 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| HN is now where I get my daily does[1] of apathetic indifference/go with the flow attitude. [1] * dose |
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| ▲ | yoyohello13 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Sometimes I wonder how we got here. Data breaches everywhere, my 64gb of ram i7 workstation slowing to a crawl when opening a file browser, online privacy getting increasingly more impossible. Then I read HN and it all makes sense. | |
| ▲ | cindyllm 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [dead] | |
| ▲ | koakuma-chan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is there a place where you get things that are greater and more noble than apathetic indifference/go with the flow attitude? | | |
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| ▲ | dcchambers 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me". Does the security team at your company know you're doing this? Security as a whole is inconvenient. That doesn't mean we should ignore it. |
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| ▲ | phero_cnstrcts 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That’s just sad. |
