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OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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Re: OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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People will pay for OpenAI to have access to their financial data??

I wonder if I could pay someone to run me over with a bus.

Sure. But it's going to be expensive. It actually costs me a lot of money to provide a "running you over with a bus" service.

Re: OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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I feel like every single day OpenAI and Anthropic are entrenching their slopware in everyday products and workplaces with little to no way to opt-out. This is getting dystopian.

Was thinking the same recently.

It feels like an arms race on who’s gonna become the Microsoft of the 90s, trying to own and provide everything.

I think it will play out in the same way

Re: OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Which could take out so much and OpenAI with it I guess I’m not seeing the systemic failure mode with a Plaid hook-up? The worst case is it sends a bunch of peoples’ money into the aether. That sucks for them and for OpenAI. But I’m not seeing it e.g. collapsing a bank.

A meme prompt with a prompt injection in it would easily reach millions of ChatGPT users.

can you give an example of how it can work?

Re: OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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> OpenAI did this with your health data in January. Now it wants your financial data too. This is far more valuable, they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations, predict things like cheating on your wife & the impending divorce, what vices you have and they can also build shadow profiles of all the people you give and receive money from even if they don't use the product.

it is far more valuable to know the type of boring things boring people buy in their boring daily lives

Re: OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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> OpenAI did this with your health data in January. Now it wants your financial data too. This is far more valuable, they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations, predict things like cheating on your wife & the impending divorce, what vices you have and they can also build shadow profiles of all the people you give and receive money from even if they don't use the product.

>they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations

You can get a pretty good estimate just by looking at other demographic factors like age, education level, income, and zip code. Moreover, how many people actually donate to campaigns?

>predict things like cheating on your wife & the impending divorce, what vices you have and they can also build shadow profiles of all of the people you give and receive money from even if they don't use the product.

Google has all this capability for at least a decade. What concrete harms have actually materialized?

Re: OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

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> OpenAI did this with your health data in January. Now it wants your financial data too. This is far more valuable, they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations, predict things like cheating on your wife & the impending divorce, what vices you have and they can also build shadow profiles of all the people you give and receive money from even if they don't use the product.

If all they wanted was to know more about your profile, they could already buy this information form the bank I presume.
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