> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.

Hacker News in 2026.

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.

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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

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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