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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I did read this part, and while this is generally true, there are use cases of such large models. Some of them require the input of personal data (find bugs in my code, formalize this email, scan this picture for text and translate it, draw an anime version of this picture of my friend tom)

    So people being weary of security implications of such large models are certainly not

    in a huge circle jerk that never ends, but refuses to understand how it all works.

    Sure you can just call them all dumb using ai like the mainstream (putting in personal data) and attribute it to an unwillingness to understand, but this doesn’t match the reality. Most people don’t even understand how an operating system functions, which components work online and which offline and who can access which of their information, let alone know how “AI” works and what the security implications are.

    So If people ask those questions, hoping there are alternatives they can use safely your answer “no, u just dumb, machine can’t harm you, its not magic, just don’t put in data in”

    Is not only rude but also missing the point. Most usefull/fun/mainstream ways DO in fact, put in data.

    You explaining basic models also doesn’t help, as the concern here is not mainly/only the model, but american spy institution to access all prompts you did put in, maybe categorizing you in personality clusters dependent on your usage of language or assigning tags on which political stance a users has (and with entities like the NSA I could imagine far worse)

    Also “A model is a model” Is not very accurate in such cases. When someone has control and secrecy over each aspect of the model, it would be very well possible for entities like the NSA to manipulate the content the models puts out in arbitrary directions. A government controlling and manipulating information the public receives is a red flag for a lot of people (rightfully so IMHO)

    How are people supposed to get better in digital privacy topics if you just tell them to shut up and insult them when they aks questions trying to learn? You acting like you are in your Elfenbeinturm of genius isn’t helping anyone.


  • There is a difference between a general scare about the AI buzzword and legitimate distrust in online services which are closely connected to american spying institutions (regardless if they are ai or not)

    If my calories tracker app would apoint a (former) NSA official on their board, I would be looking for alternatives too. This is not about AI, this is about a company with huge sets of private data being closely interconnected with american spy institutions.

    Sad that you don’t seem to be able to distinguished between legitimate security questions and badly informed hypes/scares ass soon as a buzzword like AI occurs




  • Dude, that is literally what I did! to quote my original comment:

    If you want to be sure you cant be tracked, monitored, spyed on, and calls can’t be intersepted:

    Don’t ever connect it to WiFi and don’t insert a sim card.

    [Reasons why this is the case]

    If you just want to decrease spying by companies and less powerful people:

    [Things you can to anyway to increase privacy]

    I don’t know what your problem is honestly. Maybe my tone was off, if so thats on me, I am not a native speaker, but I really don’t know why you are targeting me now with your quite harsh stellvertreterkrieg… You are not even op, why are you so offended and talk me down?






  • Agree with not liking Stalin is great, but calling that “anarcho-” is just stupid. Anarchos generally believe you can run big nation States in a capitalistic world without any central power comparable to today’s nations (not even a democratically controlled one) but instead jump right to the classless society by getting rid of all (or most) institutions and it will just work fine.

    Communists/socialists on the other hand believe you need time, practise and fair game rules to form a classless society with enough time, especially in a capitalistic world, where the USA can just invade you, if you have no army and not even a generally recognized government.

    Not liking the real life dictator countries, no matter what they call them self’s should be a disconnected question from the philosophical one on how to best archive a harmonic world






  • Exactly. If you want to be 100℅ sure you don’t get tracked AT ALL you can’t use the internet.

    The second you connect metadata is gained by ISP and all the servers which get called. This can be enough to track you down for powerful entities like the government.

    If only your aunt may with a evening school IT course is your threat, a pin and graphene os is probably enough

    Also OP mentioned his sim card is registered on his real life name, so having that connected to cellphones is enough to track you if you have a warrant to force your internet service provider to share the information