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My hesitancy about AI is that it is serious invasion of privacy.

People “chat” with these tools and reveal all kinds of details about themselves and what they are working on. After that happens, they have no control over what is done with that data or who it is shared with.

If AI is used for tasks or technical details where privacy is not that much of a concern, I have less of a problem with it.

If AI could be used completely locally without “phoning home” and sharing all the details with BigTech companies, then I’d be much more okay with it.

As of now, that’s hard to do. I think the privacy concerns are very real and should be taken seriously.

#privacy #AI #LLM

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Yes, there are other questions:

  • “Is this tool even doing what I want it to?”
  • “How do I verify the output is good?”
  • “Am I letting this machine guide me in my thinking or am I in control of what conclusions I come to?”

For me, the privacy concern is currently most important.

Disclaimer: I do use Brave search and I find the that the “AI generated” search summaries are often helpful - so I am not completely against AI, but am cautious