Romantic AI Chatbots Don't Have Your Privacy at Heart
foundation.mozilla.org
Wowee! Relationship chatbots are terrible for your privacy in strange new ways while also being terrible for your privacy in regular old ways.

The whole article’s a great read, but here’s a fun excerpt=

To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends are not your friends. 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.” --Misha Rykov, Researcher @ *Privacy Not Included

  • LWD@lemm.ee
    6·
    9 months ago

    Do a search on the page for “Category of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared”. The following are sold to advertising partners:

    • Internet or other electronic network activity (e.g., browsing history, search history, information regarding an individual’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, and online viewing activities)
    • Inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer
    • Geolocation data (e.g., … your device’s precise location)
      • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        9 months ago

        Damn, hadn’t realized Mozilla was doing ad profiling! 😓

        Anybody know of a way to disable that somehow, mobile\desktop? If its not a thing I think I might be jumping ship… Really hoped Firefox had their shit together!

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          2·
          8 months ago

          Go to about:config, search “shopping2023” and start switching to false

        • Blisterexe
          1·
          9 months ago

          They’re not, Fakespot, a service it’ll prompt you to enable, may do that once it’s interested