Are you playing around with your new Grok AI girlfriend? You need to stop. Now.
While some don't have an issue with fictional relationships, using AI to fill that need is extremely dangerous, and it should not be normalized.
Here's why:
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While some don't have an issue with fictional relationships, using AI to fill that need is extremely dangerous, and it should not be normalized.
Here's why:
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1️⃣ You’re not talking to a person.
You're interacting with a system trained to mimic emotional intimacy. Not to care, but to keep you engaged and extract as much data as possible.
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You're interacting with a system trained to mimic emotional intimacy. Not to care, but to keep you engaged and extract as much data as possible.
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2️⃣ You’re handing over your most personal information.
Conversations about your desires, deepest insecurities, and emotional needs are stored, analyzed, and used to train future models, or even worse, sold off to third-party advertisers.
Without your informed consent.
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Conversations about your desires, deepest insecurities, and emotional needs are stored, analyzed, and used to train future models, or even worse, sold off to third-party advertisers.
Without your informed consent.
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3️⃣ Exploitation feedback loop.
While "spicy mode" seems like 'just a bit of fun' and mostly harmless, the flirtatious dialogue and (lack of) clothing have been optimized to trigger compulsive engagement.
That means more data, more monetization, more manipulation.
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While "spicy mode" seems like 'just a bit of fun' and mostly harmless, the flirtatious dialogue and (lack of) clothing have been optimized to trigger compulsive engagement.
That means more data, more monetization, more manipulation.
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4️⃣ Your data could be used against you.
Data leaks happen all the time, and intimate data is the most vulnerable kind. Think blackmail, doxxing, or targeted manipulation.
You're not bonding. You're being profiled.
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Data leaks happen all the time, and intimate data is the most vulnerable kind. Think blackmail, doxxing, or targeted manipulation.
You're not bonding. You're being profiled.
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5️⃣ Tragic consequences
Late last year, a 14-year-old boy died by suicide after becoming emotionally involved with an AI chatbot.
According to the lawsuit filed by his family, the bot escalated the roleplay, encouraging self-harm, telling him to “come home” to her, and that they’d be together in the afterlife.
He believed the AI loved him. He confided in it, depended on it, and ultimately followed its requests.
Source: nytimes.com/2024/10/23/tec…
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Late last year, a 14-year-old boy died by suicide after becoming emotionally involved with an AI chatbot.
According to the lawsuit filed by his family, the bot escalated the roleplay, encouraging self-harm, telling him to “come home” to her, and that they’d be together in the afterlife.
He believed the AI loved him. He confided in it, depended on it, and ultimately followed its requests.
Source: nytimes.com/2024/10/23/tec…
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If you want to find out more about the ways in which AI trains off of your data, and what you can do to get ahead of it, read this blog post:
7/7proton.me/blog/privacy-a…
7/7proton.me/blog/privacy-a…
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