Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff
Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff
Wowee! Relationship chatbots are terrible for your privacy in strange new ways while also being terrible for your privacy in regular old ways.
The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=
To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included
Please tell me this isn't real...people upload their private stuff to talk to their AI "girlfriend"?
Replika was made with that in mind.
There's a recent video essay exploring some of the relationship issues with this, and the privacy ones too... The Mozilla article, at first glance, looks at least a little inspired by the Vivek.
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It's rather ironic Mozilla has a team doing valuable research on the dangers of AI corporations taking your data, compiling it into profiles, and selling those profiles to advertisers (90% of them)....
...While Mozilla itself purchased a subsidiary that offers AI-enhanced shopping which takes people's data, compiles it into personal profiles, and sells those profiles to advertisers.
Mozilla's Privacy Not Included needs to do a deep dive on Mozilla's Fakespot.
I assume they're going to use the Fakespot tech in a privacy respecting way, which is why it's taking so long to add the Fakespot features
Mozilla recently updated the Fakespot privacy policy, and never removed the data sale clause.
Fakespot code is already been injected into Firefox, too. It is currently fully functional, although it only works on the three largest shopping websites on the United States.
At some point, you have to figure the multimillion dollar corporation actually knows what they're doing... Right?
The Ai girlfriend
-user "hey babe can i tell you somthing intimate?"
-Bot "yes"
-user "i wish my cat didnt pee all over my floor"
-Bot "you could use Oxyclean™ a stain fighting cleaner, (goes on and on about paid adverts) and after your down you can by premium litter from Stinky shit litter company.
Its sad Ai girlfreinds exist and i mis bill maze :(
Ah, automated, scalable honey traps. What will they think of next?