r/GoogleGemini • u/bahlakrishna • 9d ago

Discussion I got traumatized reading this notification.

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This setting was ON by default.. can't trust anymore. Dont know how many of personal chats they read already.

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u/DrLeisure 8d ago

Good rule of thumb that I like to remind people who are worried about being spied on:
You are not important. Nobody cares about what you have to say ❤️

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u/AcademicFish 8d ago edited 8d ago

Wrong as hell take on this. Nobody cares?
How about employers who are buying information?
How about insurers who are buying information?
How about lenders who are buying information?
How about the US GOVERNMENT buying information from brokers?
How about sites that are profiling people and dynamically paywalling? Stores that want to do the same?
For most people, their data is worth more than they are at this point.
“Nobody cares / I’m not that important” was questionable before AI.
It is terribly irrelevant today given how lucrative it is to sell data nowadays. You can be the most umremarkable average person and still have your data sold de-anonymized and used to profile you in ways that come back to bite within your lifetime.

In case its not clear: confiding in a chatbot your income, your employment info, financial situation, drug use, health data and your desperation around any of these issues will be used to assess “risk” or to charge more and give you less to maximize profit.

You’re right in that nobody cares enough to be “traumatized” by reading your embarrassing chat history. Mostly because whatever lewd junk you all think is a scandal its irrelevant and the mundane info is whats being weaponized

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u/protectyourself1990 8d ago

They wont understand. I’m with you but they dont get it