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Why is privacy important in this context, if the data is being fed into an impartial robot? The robot doesn't care if you have liaisons over webcam with your lover, or whatever else.

An employee can blackmail another person, but the model simply has no reason to, or am I misinterpreting the "whys" of needing privacy here?

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> The robot doesn't care if you have liaisons over webcam with your lover, or whatever else.

The concern isn't judgement from the AI, but that products from the model trained on your data could expose sensitive information.

Since it's never quite clear exactly how the data could be used in situations like this, there's a chance that very sensitive data could be parroted back to people who were not the intended audience.

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