It's very simple. There is ZERO chance the worlds biggest advertising companies will refrain, long-term, from using your most intimate secrets, gathered through your many conversations with their AI personal assistants, to sell you things.

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airstrafer 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I agree with this but also think it is a first order consequence.

This level of unfettered access to your personality, lifestyle, and secrets allows for an unprecedented kind of manipulation and control. You could see it as a new kind of wealth transfer: not only will They sell you things, They will subtly manipulate behaviors of the masses via trusted agents.

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phoghed 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Brother the biggest ad companies already own the platforms most people use for their communications. For over half the world they are the browser, the OS, the TV, the messaging platform, the map, etc.

I think to the vast majority of people having one of these companies run an agent platform is going to be business as usual.

	▲	airstrafer an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No disagreement here lol. E.g. Target knows you are pregnant before you do [1]. That being said I think AIs are a whole new level of invasiveness because people tend to trust them like a human. Here’s a prediction: the true AI moat will be owning the “AI friends” of the masses: a trusted coworker, therapist, personal music artist, or even just something to talk to. The moat comes from the fact that these “friends” will deeply understand the user and the users will want to “take them along” with their entire life (they’re useful!). So people will get “locked in” to their AI “team” which is only available via one of the major AI labs. And in turn, the AI labs parasitically will understand everything about the way you live and think at a level that traditional ad trackers could only dream of. Sama has alluded to this in interviews for a long time. He stated a year ago [2]: > The way that I think of it is that most people will want to have one AI service, and that needs to be useful to them across their whole life. And so you’ll use ChatGPT, but you’ll want it to be integrated with other services and so you need to have other apps inside of ChatGPT. We need to have an API business, because you will want to be able to sign in with OpenAI into some service that someone else has built, and you’ll want the kind of continuity of experience and you’ll want it to still know you and have your stuff and know what to share and what not to share. So we want to build this AI helper for people and that’s going to have to — there’s a few pieces that have to fit into that. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.... [2] https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-openai-ceo-sa...

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jagged-chisel 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or to otherwise coerce you into whatever funnel that makes them money

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NBJack 5 hours ago | parent [-]

"That sounds like a tough problem in your relationship right now. Would you like me to order another Crave cookie for you? There's a special right now on free delivery. What about renewing your subscription to aitherapynow.com?"

	▲	jagged-chisel 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		More like “I have placed an order for which you have saved on delivery fees. Your aitherapynow.com subscription has been renewed and I will transfer you to the therapist momentarily. Just a note: your charges have resulted in using your free overdraft protection on your Chime® by Chase® from Goldman® with Fidelity® debit account - remember interest charges start in 29 days.”

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ncr100 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In your locality, do you know if there are any upcoming votes/ laws or politicians who are realistically working to preserve your privacy, in these regards?

In mine, I don't.

That seems like an oversight/ opportunity.

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winrid 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"I've gone ahead and placed an order based on your Google doc Daily Diary "Bad Dragon" entry."

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piyuv 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

“to sell you things” -> to manipulate you

Let’s not forget Facebook caused a genocide