I wrote this in 2018:

AI and privacy are incompatible

https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/artificial-intelligence-an...

Highlight towards the end

“I will make a prediction of my own: more deeply intertwined AI based services will increase the decision making capabilities for users over the next several decades to such an extent, that it will be considered irresponsible not to use them.

Ok, fine then we’ll do it offline!

I can hear you now: “Well fine, I value my privacy but I also agree that these services are beneficial. So we will just make systems that never touch Amazon, Google or Facebook or whatever mega corporation services. We’ll own our own data and I’ll just keep all my private data locally in my own home and have my open source Smart Speaker totally off the grid. Or maybe just send out relevant data where necessary. I’ll build my own DDPG based Deep Learning systems and teach it everything it needs to know!” But will you?”

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greenwichhaven an hour ago | parent [-]

You guys have it backwards.

Social media sites (including this one) are the ones tracking you and selling your data to advertisers. It’s technology like Chrome, advertising scripts, Nest in your house that is the spyware you should worry about, insofar that you care about privacy.

An AI model like an LLM or stable diffusion is a read-only, offline technology completely incapable of spying in the way conventional technology already does.

Simply put, “AI” is not a privacy concern. Software that gathers information about users is.

	▲	AndrewKemendo 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Correct! I’d take it further and say there’s nothing inherently wrong with information gathering software The issue is that the data is not owned or controlled by the person and all benefits accrue to giant systems like corporations and governments.