Posted on 02/14/2024 8:11:56 PM PST by algore
Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a tradeoff you may not realize you’re making. According to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends harvest shockingly personal information, and almost all of them sell or share the data they collect.
“To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends and boyfriends are not your friends,” said Misha Rykov, a Mozilla Researcher, in a press statement. “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.”
You’ve heard stories about data problems before, but according to Mozilla, AI girlfriends violate your privacy in “disturbing new ways.”
For example, CrushOn.AI collects details including information about sexual health, use of medication, and gender-affirming care. 90% of the apps may sell or share user data for targeted ads and other purposes, and more than half won’t let you delete the data they collect. Security was also a problem. Only one app, Genesia AI Friend & Partner, met Mozilla’s minimum security standards.
One of the more striking findings came when Mozilla counted the trackers in these apps, little bits of code that collect data and share them with other companies for advertising and other purposes. Mozilla found the AI girlfriend apps used an average of 2,663 trackers per minute, though that number was driven up by Romantic AI, which called a whopping 24,354 trackers in just one minute of using the app.
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Weird.
AI: "No, Drill, I find you loathsome."
BtD: "Congratulations! You just passed the Turing test!"
My AI girlfriend extends no more than to the sexy Australian accent that I gave Siri on my iPhone.
Gee I hope they don’t turn on the camera
“Weird”
Science
Before we make love, I need you to read off the password to your internet banking. I get horny only when I hear that password.
Okay, Brandon666BitesAndS0R0Sruns4merikaPutin4PresUSukRomney666
oh wait, that was for my facebook, just a sec, can you call back? In let’s say a million years?
That password isn’t very secure. It has no punctuation characters and uses real words. You’ll never win her heart that way.
What a weird ass world we live in now.
While the AI chick might mine your data, at least she won’t ask for $3000 so she can book a flight from Russia to come meet you.
>> “Weird”
>> Science
Tryst the science!
Please tell me about yourself. What music do you like? What’s your favorite movie? What was the name of your first pet? What is your mother’s maiden name? Which of the following cars did you have a loan on in 2015?
Not that different to real life girlfriends who will take that personal information and slag you off to her friends about it.
She’s Alive! Alive!
...hair.
I never saw that movie but I remember Oingo Boingo.
LOL! You have to see this Body Count vid Ice-T made updating an old Suicidal Tendencies song. Much profanity but the targets totally deserve it.
("OMG You have an anger problem." What tipped you off?)
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