Comment by NewsaHackO
3 months ago
To me, no company has the customers’ best interests in mind. This whole thing is akin to when Apple was refusing to unlock phones for the FBI. Of course, Apple profits by having people think that they take privacy seriously, and they demonstrate it by protecting users’ privacy. Same thing here; OpenAI needs chats to have some expectation of privacy, especially because a large use case of AI is personal advice on things. So they are fighting to make sure it's true.
> To me, no company has the customers’ best interests in mind.
Lavabit opted to stop operating rather than give the FBI access to client emails.
https://archive.ph/20200915083857/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
Both OpenAI and NYT are bad. I don't know about NYT's privacy policy, because that's not really the industry they're in, but they did admit to fabricating a story that led to a now 2-year-long war, so.
Yes, but I think at least in this instance, OpenAI needs people to think that what they ask ChatGPT is private. They will have no business model if everyone thought that whatever private question they ask could fall into the hands of a media company and be used for anything. Also, at least when I signed up, you had to provide either a highly trusted email address or phone number to sign up, so your identity is definitely attached to whatever question you ask ChatGPT. They know how high the stakes are for them in this suit.
> Both OpenAI and NYT are bad.
Both -1 and -1,000,000 are negative numbers.
We need to be careful and mindful of our framing. Saying "X is bad" is a drastic oversimplification and not necessarily useful. Pointing at any one company and saying "bad" doesn't move the needle much in terms of figuring out how to steer us towards better outcomes. For that, we have to identify incentives and understand motivations.
Which story is this?
And their followups
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/28/new-york-times-daily-pod...
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt-october-7-sexual-vio...
The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé https://share.google/2HB4zPEGi7x3JTYyj