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When ChatGPT turns informant

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Re: When ChatGPT turns informant

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post #50

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Grab search history and ask an AI to analyze it.

So a few steps more than just ask the AI, and still relies on AI.

The point is that the data is there from search engines (and more data, from more people anyway). Whether you automate reading it or do it manually, it is 100% unrelated to the topic of ChatGPT being an informant.

Re: When ChatGPT turns informant

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Counterexample to what? Automatic translation is trivial today. Your choice of language isn't security through obscurity anymore.

What are you talking about? All of the scenarios described in the article are stymied by non-english output and non-acceptance of English input. None of these users are technically capable of operating in that environment. It's pragmatic and avoids precisely the scenarios described. If you are inventing other scenarios, you need to describe what they are. From the article: A colleague or fellow student discovers you’…

Thanks for the quotes, I missed that. I find it quite unexpected that such questions don't work reliably due to the language barrier. I don't believe it will last even a couple of years.

Re: When ChatGPT turns informant

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> I intentionally don’t use the memory

What makes you think if you turn it off it actually turns off? Though they don't need to do that, the entire conversation is already indexed. It's how they provide search in the first place, but it's not just for you.

The whole thing about scale and billion dollars data centers are not just to provide personal assistance for everyone, they can already do that just fine. But they need it only if they want to fit that entire said index in a single chat context.

Re: When ChatGPT turns informant

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post #79

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One doesn't have to scroll through them and find the nuggets themselves; it's digital data. It can be copied[1]. Once copied, one can then paste it into an LLM and have it find the nuggets. [1]: And by "copied," I mean... even a long series of hasty cell phone photos of the screen is enough for ChatGPT to ingest the data with surprising accuracy. It's really good at this kind of thing.

It sounds to me like you’re agreeing with the person above who said ChatGPT isn’t a new threat, but your explanation uses ChatGPT. In other words, “ChatGPT isn’t a new threat because even with a search engine you can use ChatGPT to look through the queries”.

ChatGPT is absolutely a new "threat", at very least because it trivializes the automation of coarse analyzation of unstructured information -- including a user's search history.
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