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At the end of the article, the main guy says he wants tech companies to report your conversations to the authorities if bad content is detected. That’s their goal, apparently

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Sam Altman apologized for failing to do exactly that prior to a recent mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC.[1]

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sam-altman-t...

Effective politicians (which SA is) have by now realized that every tragedy is an opportunity to convince people to give away their rights for the vague notion of safety, as defined by them.

Don’t be fooled, they already 100% do that if you use any of these products.

Then, what are they even fighting about?

Who is included on the mailing list. Florida is asking to be included.

if they did, why draw attention?

> Don’t be fooled, they already 100% do that if you use any of these products.

Just to clarify for anyone not paying attention -- Anthropic has written postmortems detailing their Claude Code monitoring and how they "coordinated with authorities" as they "gathered actionable intelligence" from users creating bad content [0].

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

Not sure how this doesn’t seem to get more attention. Sensitive queries can undoubtedly end up flagged and eventually in front of a human, apparently with the capability to then explore all other submissions from you.

>Not sure how this doesn’t seem to get more attention

Because it's obvious? Any interaction on the cloud = someone else's computer has 0 expectation of privacy. Are we next gonna pretend being shocked that google queries aren't private.

Anecdotally, my sister has become addicted to Copilot and uses it to replace face-to-face communication. I suspect she is not the first, nor even in the first million to become addicted to it.

There's no legal privacy such as doctor-patient confidentiality or lawyer-client confidentiality. It would not surprise me that people want some sort of guardrails protecting the public from recipes-to-do-evil. Based on how much pushback the AI industry has been doing in response to guardrails about hate speech or porn, I expect this to be fought to the death by the AI industry.

I struggle so much with what the allure is for using a chatbot for companionship and I've dealt with loneliness before. Then again I struggle to understand how people become fixated on celebrities or adult actors.

Either one seems so glaringly artificial and transactional it'd be more depressing than loneliness.

People 50 years ago would laugh at the irony of that statement, being made here on what we call the internet. Real life will never be digital, and yet here we are, talking to anonymous strangers many of whom are not actual people.

I considered this too but I didn't think it too ironic considering anonymous pen pals have been a thing since the 20th century at least. Obviously the technology would amaze, but the concept would be understandable and appreciated.

I think the allure is similar to why older people are far more susceptible to pig-butchering or romance scams. I think that in her case, Copilot is a replacement for the lack of attention she cannot get in real life. I have repeatedly told her that I am not able to give her the attention she wants/needs.

The lawsuit is also demanding mandatory age verification to use AI in the first place.

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