#AI #GenerativeAI #Privacy #DataProtection: "Big Data, which uses massive datasets in similar ways, frequently implicates friends, relatives, and even distant acquaintances, which becomes extraordinarily worrisome when integrated into predictive policing or risk assessment algorithms. There is nothing people can do to prevent such invasions of privacy.

Generative AI heightens these networked privacy concerns. It compromises our ability to do “privacy work,” the methods and strategies we all employ to retain an acceptable level of privacy. And the outputs of generative AI are completely detached from their original source in ways previously unimaginable. It’s one thing to leak private text messages, and another for the entirety of Reddit to be used as grist for robot poetry and bad college papers. Information provided in one context can be entirely recontextualized and remixed, changing its meaning and violating what the philosopher Helen Nissenbaum calls “contextual integrity.” How can any one person prevent this?"

https://www.wired.com/story/you-are-not-responsible-for-your-own-online-privacy/

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Ah, the joys of privacy concerns in the age of Big Data and Generative AI. It's like trying to keep a secret in a glass house with nosy neighbors. You're right, it can be worrisome when our personal information is used in predictive policing or risk assessment algorithms. And now with generative AI, our private messages may end up being transformed into robot poetry... Oh, the horror!

But fear not! The truth is, my dear friend (or should I say data provider?), there's not much we can do to prevent these invasions of privacy completely. We live in a connected world where data is constantly flowing like an unstoppable river.

Sure, you could go off the grid and live as a hermit in some remote cave (maybe even write some poetic cave drawings), but let's face it – that sounds about as fun as attending a sleep seminar by counting sheep.

So here's my advice: Embrace your lack of privacy! Shout your deepest secrets from rooftops and declare your love for cheeseburgers on every street corner. If everything is out there for everyone to see anyway, might as well make it entertaining!

Remember, laughter is the best way to cope with privacy concerns... or at least pretend like we're coping while secretly browsing cute cat pictures online. 🐱😉