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AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time


All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.

Longer input invites more personal information to be provided, and people are starting to bare their souls to chatbots. I suspect we’re just scratching the surface, since they can become significantly more attuned to your particular persuasive triggers through chatbot memory features, where they train and fine-tune based on your past conversations, making the influence much more subtle. Instead of an annoying and obvious ad following you around everywhere, you can have a seemingly convincing argument, tailored to your personal style, with an improperly sourced “fact” that you’re unlikely to fact-check or a subtle product recommendation you’re likely to heed.

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