It shouldn’t take a panic over Chinese AI to remind people that most companies in the business set the terms for how they use your private data.
And when you use their AI apps, you’re doing work for them, not the other way around.
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We are in the earliest days of sensing the privacy implications of incorporating #chatgpt / #deepseek et al. into our lives.
I think this period will be viewed as a time of a massive willing...but not fully witting... transfer of personal information, right down to our ways of reasoning & understanding the world...into the hands of a new set of companies & their CEOs.
The same companies that have the ambition to shape how we think.
And shape how society looks.
I think you’re dead on