Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI
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Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI - San José Spotlight
Bay Area residents who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future use. Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city...
San José Spotlight (sanjosespotlight.com)
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Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI - San José Spotlight
Bay Area residents who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future use. Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city...
San José Spotlight (sanjosespotlight.com)
Well, that certainly won't put a dent in folks' willingness to send future Emails to their city gov'ts, now will it??
Fucking lunatic Counterfeit Cognizance Pushers... Fuck them all and their world-killing data-sucking requirements...
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Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI - San José Spotlight
Bay Area residents who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future use. Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city...
San José Spotlight (sanjosespotlight.com)
That's really clever. (And the people pissed off aren't potential customers anyway.)
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Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI - San José Spotlight
Bay Area residents who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future use. Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city...
San José Spotlight (sanjosespotlight.com)
These AI apologists are deranged.
Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. https://addy.io/ is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.
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These AI apologists are deranged.
Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. https://addy.io/ is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.
while i share the sentiment, the ai model here isn't looking to harvest email ids. their model is to harvest the content of email messages and summarise them into a list of "a citizen's most pressing concerns".
aliases will not allay the qualms of such a service.
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That's really clever. (And the people pissed off aren't potential customers anyway.)
The potential customers here are whatever companies they inevitably sell the data and product to down the road.
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That's really clever. (And the people pissed off aren't potential customers anyway.)
As far as I can tell, almost no one is a potential A.I. customer. Devs use GitHub Copilot but it’s not a game changer or anything.
I’m not an A.I. hater. I think it’ll eventually bring great medical advancements and prove valuable. I just think it’s overhyped for average consumers. I don’t think it’s going to be something as revolutionary as smartphones or even Snake on Nokia phones. To me, it feels like a “nice to have” tech more than “essential” tech. And the downsides are considerable. I don’t suspect any Sci Fi shit will happen but making spammers more efficient isn’t worth the carbon footprint.
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while i share the sentiment, the ai model here isn't looking to harvest email ids. their model is to harvest the content of email messages and summarise them into a list of "a citizen's most pressing concerns".
aliases will not allay the qualms of such a service.
Which arguably is a decent use case for it. As it is there's some stranger or in-between going through them for the same reason, at best. And most likely then just putting them into categories, not actually applying any sort of analysis whatsoever for most governments or politicians that receive those emails.
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These AI apologists are deranged.
Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. https://addy.io/ is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.
but you don't understand! just one more model bro. seriously, just one more training and we'll have it bro.
bro. bro. bro! just one more model to train.
please, bro. please.
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Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI - San José Spotlight
Bay Area residents who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future use. Mountain View-based company GovernmentGPT filed 90 California Public Records Act requests with multiple cities across the Bay Area for emails from residents addressed to mayors, councilmembers and city...
San José Spotlight (sanjosespotlight.com)
Should send it an email that links it into an infinite maze of useless information.
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These AI apologists are deranged.
Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. https://addy.io/ is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.
is free
What is their business model?
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is free
What is their business model?
Premium supported. You get plenty with the free tier, but you get lots more with paid.
