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Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included team digs into privacy issues in "Romantic AI Chatbots". Spooky stuff (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The whole article's a great read, but here's a fun excerpt=

To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

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[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Please tell me this isn't real...people upload their private stuff to talk to their AI "girlfriend"?

[-] jaykay@lemmy.zip 51 points 7 months ago

First day on the internet?

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm wondering the same, the people thinking about what they share are a small minority.

This was always the case when it finally got mainstream and it only got worse from there.

[-] jaykay@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

I recently went on instagram and Facebook, holy moly do people share a lot. Who the hell cares where you’ve been or had for breakfast

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Replika was made with that in mind.

There's a recent video essay exploring some of the relationship issues with this, and the privacy ones too... The Mozilla article, at first glance, looks at least a little inspired by the Vivek.

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