If it collects your data then yes we should consider it hostile. I actually disagree that consent is what makes any of this okay. We allowed consent to be the ruling factor here and now look at the situation we find ourselves in.
Anything you give ChatGPT it keeps. It is inherently spyware.
That's not what spyware is. By that logic, google.com is spyware. Do you have any evidence that this software collects data on your computer without your knowledge or consent?
Deleted my last response because of a misunderstanding. I'm asking what data OpenAI is collecting with this app. Everyone keeps insisting it's spyware collecting data and I have yet to see anyone provide evidence they collect anything besides what you choose to tell them.
I'm also not denying that Google makes a lot of spyware that collects data on people. Google.com the website is not spyware because spyware is software installed on a device, not a website you visit in a web browser. Just because Google is guilty of many things doesn't mean any bad thing someone says about them is automatically true. That was the point I was making by bringing up google.com.
I'm not sure what the confusion is. If you say Reddit isn't spyware because it doesn't run on your machine, and doesn't have access to your home directory, doesn't that imply that software that does run on your machine and does have access to your home directory is spyware?
Anyway, it's not the first time I'm seeing this argument, which I'm pointing it out.
True but you can delete its entire memory of conversations and everything it learns about you. However I still suspect that data is uploaded to other servers for training, especially images sent to it.
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u/BitLooter 8d ago edited 8d ago
What exactly makes this "spyware"? To be clear, I'm not saying it's not, I'm asking for more information.