From 41b30d73a66b32da5ae2f448fbd6ce9eaf064f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: counterweight Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:25:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] stuff --- public/index.html | 16 ++++- .../credit-cards-affairs-and-chatgpt.html | 67 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 public/writings/credit-cards-affairs-and-chatgpt.html diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html index 32cf606..19ffc15 100644 --- a/public/index.html +++ b/public/index.html @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ circumstances. Some notable hints:

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Sometimes I like to jot down ideas and drop them here.

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+ Hi, Pablo here +

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back to home

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Credit cards, affairs and ChatGPT

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+ Many years ago, when I was doing my Bachelor's thesis, I had a fun conversation + with Dolors, my tutor back then. She was a smart woman, and so the interesting chats + were the norm. That day we ended up discussing how people are typically concerned with their privacy, + yet their banks knew so much about them and they wouldn't mind. She summed it up in a sentence that + stuck with me: "The easiest way to find out if a husband is having an affair is just to read his credit + card statement". +

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+ I've been using ChatGPT profusely during the last couple of years. It's not God's Mana, nor + I think it will destroy the world. But it's quite useful for some stuff, and I've been + pulling it up more and more frequently. +

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+ The other day I came across these guys: trymaple.ai. Long story short, it's like ChatGPT, + but they use (and apparently prove) an architecture that means + nobody, not even them, can see your chats. That's it, that's the selling point. +

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+ It brought back to my memory the credit cards quote, and I started scrolling through my + ChatGPT history. For the first time, I looked at it with an adversarial mindset, as if I was + a spy spying on myself. With an attitude of: "What can I find out about this Pablo guy here?". +

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+ I was horrified when I realised there was a lot about me you could find out in those chats. + Among the many questions on coding and technical bits, some other chats gave away a lot of + details of my life. And that suddenly made me feel really uncomfortable. These guys are not + even charging me (I'm using their free tier) and they are sitting on all of this data... I + thought to myself this couldn't end well. +

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+ I purchased a plan from Maple AI and I've replaced ChatGPT with it. Barely noticed the difference. + And now I'm feeling much more calm about dropping cues on me in the chat. +

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+ I hope we see more and more zero-knowledge, E2E encrypted SaaS offerings out there. I'm surely willing + to pay for them. +

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