⚡️💬 THINKING - For 20 years, you entrusted your private life to companies and gave them everything without asking any questions

Your photos, your messages, your movements, your searches... because it was free, and you ended up realizing (much too late) that if it's free, then YOU are the product

Today, you pay $20 a month for ChatGPT and entrust it with your most intimate thoughts, your doubts, your strategies, your plans, thinking that this time, because you're paying, your data will remain private.

10 million people now pay for ChatGPT, generating $2.7 billion a year for OpenAI, but spoiler alert: this data will NEVER remain private.

By default, your conversations are used to train the models, and even if you disable your history, your data still passes through their servers and can be shared with third parties.

For example, in March 2023, a major leak exposed thousands of pieces of user information, and in November 2025, researchers discovered seven vulnerabilities that could be used to steal your conversations without your knowledge.

Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT conversations ended up indexed on Google because users shared links that became public.

Now imagine that in 10 years' time, you have big political ambitions or want to set up a start-up that upsets well-established players. Do you really think that no one will dig up those conversations where you revealed your weaknesses, your controversial opinions, and your strategies to destroy you at the right moment?

Human naivety will be recorded in all the history books, and while you thought you were buying confidentiality for $20 a month, you just bought the right to pay to deliver your secrets.

Don't be stupid.

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⚡️ MORE - It has largely gone unnoticed by the public. I strongly encourage you to read this ⤵︎

https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/researchers-find-chatgpt.html

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By court order, they have to retain all user data (even if "help train our models" is disabled).

The only exception is enterprise subscriptions.

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This will destroy the whole society, not only Chat users

Use Brave's Leo or Proton's Luma for privacy.

Or venice.ai

I'll never pay money for chatgpt.

The thing is literally making people retarded.

Tell that to those who prefer to pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads instead of just using an ad blocker.

It's also not AI if it wants money just to live in computer chips. I already have electricity for my computer chips, they don't need money. It's Artificial Scammer not Artificial Intelligence

That has been the problem since Facebook created the concept of social networking. You created an account on a system that you had no control over and uploaded your stuff believing it would be safe, when you know nothing about what those who control the servers are doing. But it became clear that it's not a good idea to store everything in one place, not only because of the danger of hacking, but also because of what they are capable of doing with that information. Just remember that Trump won the first election thanks to the data they used from millions of people to better sell his campaign, and they will surely continue to do so.

@Flash is completely correct here. The logic is sound, the prior evidence to support such logic is easily verifiable, and there exist every incentive to encourage exactly what he predicts.

How much does using something like nostr:nprofile1qqsdy27dk8f9qk7qvrm94pkdtus9xtk970jpcp4w48k6cw0khfm06msppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7zvqagl mitigate this?

A lot. The companies still get the content of your queries, but they very likely cannot tie it to your identity unless you are feeding it PII.

Which goes to show that it was never the price. It was the fact that you were using closed source shitware.