"it's all stored locally" is not a panacea for these alarming privacy-invading products!
what exactly is stored locally? what data is extracted from that local data and sent to the company's servers? is that local data being backed somewhere?
@molly0xfff This tool will also be a panacea for authoritarian and repressive governments looking to monitor their citizens.
More than half of humans alive today live in a country in which their “local device” can be legally searched without suspicion or due process.
Even as an American, CBP claims they can search my devices for any reason when I return home from abroad. Being able to ask my computer to share potentially-objectionable info without suspicion, much less a warrant, is scary.
@thomasfuchs Definitely not a fad, but it’s been massively oversold as a tool. Cost continues to be a principal issue. When the cost is roughly equivalent to a human worker in many seemingly-compelling use cases, businesses will stick with the people.
It doesn’t look like this cost will meaningfully change in the near future either, considering the limiting input is the fully-matured cloud compute market.
@thomasfuchs So they’ve had an official partnership with OpenAI for a few weeks & still don’t have visibility into the content that’s already been consumed by their partner? That doesn’t indicate the necessary oversight or compliance monitoring required for this large of an effort
