You mean commercial LLMs.

AI as a term includes machine learning systems that go back decades.

When I asked a similar question about old forum websites a while back, someone mentioned the Somethingaweful forum as still being active.

There’s probably a ton of NSFW sites with forums that are barely active.

Fun fact: A zip code, gender, and a DOB is enough to have an 85% chance of it being you. It’s a very well-studied area. You are de-anonymized with very little data exposed, all of which Google includes in ad auctions.

https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pdf

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/22/how-just-a-zip-code-can-tell-a-marketer-exactly-who-you-are/

https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/re-identification-of-anonymized-data/GLTR-04-2017/

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/simulating-zipcode-sex-birthdate/

Your data is exfiltrated and sold for ads. You don’t even need to buy an ad, bidders on ads can see your data

Y’all do realize that Gmail has been reading your emails and attachments from the start, right?

Someone please explain why doing that for ads isn’t terrible, but how this crosses the line?

The reasons not to trust Google are as old and numerous as the trees.

Well, that’s certainly dystopian.

Oh, no thank you.

If the mutants would just wear black turtle necks and pitch this around Silicon Valley, they would be billionaires instantly.

This is the only accurate take in the whole thread.

Passkeys solve “well, can’t be fished” by introducing 2 new problems and never resolving super prevalent session hijacking. Even as a basic cost-benefit analysis, it’s a net loss to literally everyone.

Absolutely, fully agree here. An Open Source widely applicable phone OS would benefit millions of people. Possibly billions.