> Cece lingered by the door while her mother resumed talking to the thing she was calling Sapphire. Roschelle told it that she wanted to write a book about her daughters. She talked about Zi. “My daughter has autism,” she explained. “And she’s using Eastern philosophy to help her center herself and feel—”

Even if you're smart enough not to share the details of your life with a company that just wants to exploit you any way that they can, you still have to worry about friends and family gossiping about you to AI. I've had some success getting friends and family to avoid posting about me on social media but that's going to be harder if they're using AI as a therapist or a friend

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SoftTalker an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If they aren't gossiping about you to AI they are gossiping about you to other real people. Some people just have no sense of respecting other people's confidences and privacy. I figured that out when I was about 8 years old and have really never opened up to anyone since then.

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Rygian an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There is a stark difference between gossiping to individuals vs to a multi billion dollar company whose business is to sell ads targeting you.

	▲	tgv 43 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Or selling that data to your insurance company or ICE.
	▲	SoftTalker 30 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, I don't really care about ads because I block them all anyway. But yes, at best they won't be using it to my benefit.

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cindyllm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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jagged-chisel 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even more reason for AI to be local only.

	▲	boosturpud 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. Stop trying to foist your "P" into my "AI".