#AI #GenerativeAI #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #AdTech: "The potential value of chat data could also lead companies outside the technology industry to double down on chatbot development, Nick Martin, a co-founder of the AI start-up Direqt, told me. Trader Joe’s could offer a chatbot that assists users with meal planning, or Peloton could create a bot designed to offer insights on fitness. These conversational interfaces might encourage users to reveal more about their nutrition or fitness goals than they otherwise would. Instead of companies inferring information about users from messy data trails, users are telling them their secrets outright.

For now, the most dystopian of these scenarios are largely hypothetical. A company like OpenAI, with a reputation to protect, surely isn’t going to engineer its chatbots to swindle a divorced man in distress. Nor does this mean you should quit telling ChatGPT your secrets. In the mental calculus of daily life, the marginal benefit of getting AI to assist with a stalled visa application or a complicated insurance claim may outweigh the accompanying privacy concerns. This dynamic is at play across much of the ad-supported web. The arc of the internet bends toward advertising, and AI may be no exception."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/chatbot-transcript-data-advertising/680112/