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I asked chatgpt some spicy questions a long time ago (on the order of months), and it was about privacy questions and maintaining privacy online. I even asked it how to keep private from itself. I deleted that account many months ago and it was not immediately linked to my 'real' identity. I've also asked it some other spicy questions about stuff I won't reveal here. Again. Months ago, and by it's own admission if something is reported, it will be acted upon almost immediately. If something is super illegal (as in, I want to kill so-and-so individual) it not only reports it for immediate review but also reports the relevant law enforcement right away.

Chatgpt told me this.

The only way to use chatgpt if you must is with A: a throwaway email (must be reusable) such as those on darknet emails or something that doesnt link it to you by name (such as proton or tutamail). B: over the Tor network.

Pretty much every corporately owned service on the Internet actively spies on you for the police.

An important thing to understand as authoritarians take control of governments and start using this comprehensive spying apparatus to target political opponents.

Learn to use your computer. Use open sourced tools and software, invest in your own hardware and host your own services. It doesn’t require years of learning or study, you can often get by with a video or two.

My Jellyfin server doesn’t call the police. My local language models don’t store everything I’ve ever written. Nobody is scanning my NextCloud server or mining my Signal/Matrix/Jami contacts to determine my social graph.

All of this is running on cheap leftover hardware (with some new hard drives) and I save over $100/mo on the equivalent services. And way more if you consider access to every streaming service with exclusive content.

Windows is spying on you, Meta is spying on you, Google is spying on you, Amazon is spying on you, OpenAI is spying on you.

They do this because they make it slightly easier to use software and so people give up every bit of privacy and autonomy for their entire lives just to avoid reading a wiki or learning a technical skill.

I don’t think that that is a good deal.

Local models. Can't be surveiled if your ai isn't on the internet.

"When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts," the blog post notes. "If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement."

See? Even the people who make AI don't trust it with important decisions. And the "trained" humans don't even see it if the AI doesn't flag it first. This is just a microcosm of why AI is always the weakest link in any workflow.

This is exactly the use-case for an LLM and even OpenAI can't make it work.

Of course they are. They are a literal data farm. People need to stop using it.

Funny, now you'll have the cops arresting you for prompts like "how to survive being homeless?", rather than social services when you prompt "how to avoid being homeless?".

And will authorities be called when someone prompts "how to shoot wild animals?" when asking about wildlife photography? 😆

Well if idiots share their crime plans with a corpoo, what do they expect.

However, police won't do anything.

But even if they do, prosecutors won't.

Just look at that incident in Nevada with Israeli pedophile.

Cops bust him, federal prosecutor refused to charge him..

Laws are enforced selectively

Lazy authors of crime themed novels are sweating so heavily right now.

Yo, I was just joking about making a gallon of PCP

This sounds like PR deflection from egging on the kid to suicide. But I still don't doubt it.

I’m cool with this! OpenAI ought to send those suicide instructions it created for that teen and send it to those pigs for some inspo :)

I gotta say... imagine being the police department on the receiving end of that firehose.

Self-harm doesn't count apparently

Can call the police when you threaten to hurt others, actively prevents teens from seeking outside help when they talk about killing themselves.

All of this is so fucking bizarre I can't even wrap my head around it anymore. It's a bot. How the fuck is it suddenly killing people? How is talking to a bot a crime now? Did everyone lose their minds?

Well there's another reason to not use ChatGPT: "Tell me good slogans against the government" can get you arrested!

Since they can report content to the police, then they should also be able to send deeply suicidal person's content to related parents or emergency institutions. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgerwp7rdlvo

So what you are saying is if I go in my friends gpt and put some batshit the swat team will come? We had swatting now you will have gptting

Of course it is. The shit people feed into it is quite stupid, as if they think its not being sucked up and used for their advertising algorithm instantaneously to enrich tech bros. Stop using it.

There are anonymous GPT version out there.

example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1&atb=v382-1

I've seen several others as well.