The technology isn't anything new but, it's the context that makes it so uncomfortable.

People have very different "expectations" of privacy when they're having a conversation with an AI VS when they're browsing something like Facebook

Not to mention Facebook is free whereas you pay for a GPT subscription

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ben_w 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm old enough to remember when people had expectations of privacy on Facebook, when the discovery that they didn't made for schocked headlines.

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palata 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Back then I didn't have expectations of privacy, I think. I just didn't have a notion of privacy. I didn't think the internet was hostile, I believe?

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bigyabai 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You know, Facebook, built by the guy who scraped college databases for personal information without the student's permission.

There was never any expectation of privacy if you knew Zuck's history. Facemash almost got him expelled for violating individual privacy.

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ben_w 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's the trick: in the early years, most people didn't know Zuckerberg's history.

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		Caveat emptor, the saying goes. If people don't have an appetite for privacy, don't expect them to take a principled stance based on outrageous headlines. It's not a coincidence that federally backdoored spyware like Windows is the most popular operating system in the world. I too remember the shocked headlines of the Snowden revelations, and ten-plus years later I work shoulder to shoulder with people that couldn't possibly care less. There is no expectation of privacy, HN too quickly extrapolates it's own virtue signalling to normal people that enjoy using spyware like TikTok, Facebook and Windows.

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einpoklum 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Not to mention Facebook is free whereas you pay for a GPT subscription

Recalling the now-old adage: Facebook is only free if your time and privacy are worthless.

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throwaway219450 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t think there is any consistency in behavior. People react viscerally to the unproven belief that the Facebook app records conversations. They’ll also happily buy big TVs despite the fact they’re very much listening to you and we have solid evidence that it’s for ads or residential proxying. Most people have no idea how ads “follow” you, or how companies can figure out what you talked about by connecting the dots from other user metadata.

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shepherdjerred 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ChatGPT is also freely available