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I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Re: I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Post by notachatbot123 »

> You strap it onto your wrist or clip it onto your shirt. It’ll then listen to all your conversations. (...) Depending on your comfort level, you can permit it to scan through your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events.

This is such an insane violation of privacy for everyone who communicates with or even just near a person wearing this. I cannot believe this is legal and accepted.

Re: I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Post by Terr_ »

When you get down to it, the vast majority of LLM stuff is actually fan fiction under the hood.

Even your interaction with an "assistant" is actually a document describing a conversation between two characters, where one has dialogue of what you entered and the other is acted-out.

Re: I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Post by voakbasda »

notachatbot123 wrote: post #3

> You strap it onto your wrist or clip it onto your shirt. It’ll then listen to all your conversations. (...) Depending on your comfort level, you can permit it to scan through your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events. This is such an insane violation of privacy for everyone who communicates with or even just near a person wearing this. I cannot believe this is legal and accepted.

In many US jurisdictions, it is not. It’s an invitation to a lawsuit.

Re: I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Post by georgemcbay »

notachatbot123 wrote: post #3

> You strap it onto your wrist or clip it onto your shirt. It’ll then listen to all your conversations. (...) Depending on your comfort level, you can permit it to scan through your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events. This is such an insane violation of privacy for everyone who communicates with or even just near a person wearing this. I cannot believe this is legal and accepted.

Depends where you are operating the device, but where I live (California, USA) this is clearly illegal to use in any non-public setting unless you are proactively getting the consent of everyone that might be recorded, which is a practical impossibility.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

Re: I outsourced my memory to an AI pin and all I got was fanfiction

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Post by rcyeh »

notachatbot123 wrote: post #3

> You strap it onto your wrist or clip it onto your shirt. It’ll then listen to all your conversations. (...) Depending on your comfort level, you can permit it to scan through your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events. This is such an insane violation of privacy for everyone who communicates with or even just near a person wearing this. I cannot believe this is legal and accepted.

Would you say more? Which part is the violation - the recording, transcription, storage, scanning of other data, interpretation, or something else? Does it matter if you are in a one-party or two-party (for consent to recording) state?

If a police officer is using a body camera and you happen to be speaking nearby, is that a violation of your privacy? What about the same situation, but the body camera user is not a police officer?

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