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The “aspirational” language is what really stood out to me as well. “We’re building our privacy and security protections to match the responsibility” and “we are accelerating our security and privacy roadmap” and “our long term roadmap includes advanced security features designed to keep your data private, including client-side encryption” (what does this have to do with what OpenAI stores server-side?) and “we will build.” If OpenAI cared that much, then the privacy and security protections should be baked in rather than “tacked on.” Their statement makes me feel even less optimistic in their abilities to protect information.

The rule of law is slipping away from Americans. These masked “anonymous” federal agents are identifying people without consent. In most states of the United States, one is not always required to identify oneself and has the right to remain anonymous unless an officer has a reasonable suspicion to believe that the individual is involved in a crime. One may argue, “well, what if the officer already knew the person’s identity? Isn’t this the same?” No, this is not the same, because there is a huge difference in scale, and furthermore, this is database building. These are reasons why the dichotomy in the US between public and private should be scrapped and modernized. We the people should have some right to privacy even in public, as the abilities to identify and track individuals in public are more expansive and invasive than ever. Never in history have the tools of surveillance been this oppressive and all encompassing.

I generally agree with the sentiments of the author when it comes to AI being shoved down everyone’s throat. When I don’t directly seek out AI intervention on a problem, I generally find that some form of it is in my way, slowing me down, and giving me incorrect information. I am often able to avoid it on my own systems, but whenever I need to interact with a company in some way, I am almost guaranteed to have to deal with their clanker in some form and then, if I am lucky, I get to repeat the same information to a human. As it exists right now, it significantly slows down many simply tasks.

I’m with you. The dichotomy between public and private needs to change. I should still have a degree of privacy even when I’m out in public. What has changed is the ability of others to “see” everyone everywhere at every moment with less and less friction, whether through pictures or videos shared on social media, facial recognition cameras, or location trackers like license plate readers. Historically, no one has had this ability, and now we don’t even know the degree of that ability that some have.

An alert by one of these AI tools, which from what I understand have a terrible track record, should not be reasonable suspicion or probable cause to swarm a teenager with guns drawn. I wish more people in local communities would understand how much harm this type of surveillance and response causes. Our communities should not be using these tools.

Yes, corporations have all of the rights of a person, abilities beyond a person, yet few of the responsibilities of a person.

I feel this entirely. The constant surveillance is almost unavoidable if one ever wants to participate in society. How can I always avoid using a cell phone when my source of income requires that I be accessible most of time. People will respond to get another job or buy this obscure product instead, but as you said, I can’t live my life if I’m constantly researching EVERYTHING that affects my life, and having to wade through so much bs to do so.