People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.
  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    AI chatbots could dissect your children and we’d still keep them. We’re finished caring about anything but money and power.

    I’d like to imagine a different world from this. One where anyone gives a shit about what happens to someone else. Maybe in the next life.

  • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    401·
    2 days ago

    That’s bad, but at the same time, there’s public data aggregators that sell your info, and you could go out right now and find your name, phone numbers you’ve had, former and current addresses, people you’ve lived with, former and current jobs, etc. It’s kind of terrifying what’s “public information,” and yet they continue to be allowed to operate with virtual impunity.

    I’m not saying we should just accept things, but cutting off this “training data” would be a great start, and if companies can’t, then they should be forced to cease operations (including AI chatbots).

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I don’t think that it’s actually providing the phone numbers that it knows are specific people.

      It’s generating a string of numbers that’s formatted like a phone number and many of those happen to be valid. The people calling phone numbers from chatbots are the reason that all phone numbers in movies are 555-5555 or similar, because otherwise there’d be hundreds of people calling the poor person who happened to own that phone number trying to speak to James Bond personally.