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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

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  1. mavsman · · focus · HN ↗
    To me, this quote just about sums it up:

    > The mechanism is standard adtech. What has no precedent is running it on an AI chat product.

    As someone who has been well aware of this mechanism for quite some time, I still feel icky anytime I re-read the details of it.

    What a time to be alive.

    1. jsrozner · · focus · HN ↗
      People think they're interacting with an "intelligence," when actually they're just getting a maximally optimized Weizenbaum feed. We're living through the sloppification of the human mind.

      See e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;ai-chatbots-are-becoming-experts-changing-people-s-minds-what-s-their-secret" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;ai-chatbots-are-beco...

      1. ben_w · · focus · HN ↗
        What&#x27;s the old quote from WW2?

          I couldn&#x27;t help but notice how each successive headline reporting our glorious victories seemed to draw closer to Tokyo.
        Something like that.

        Well. I can&#x27;t help but notice how each successive headline reporting how this &quot;scam&quot;&#x2F;stochastic parrot&#x2F;&quot;scare quotes intelligence&quot; seems to be solving more and more things that were but a few years ago widely regarded as being indicators of high intelligence.

        Being highly convinving is one of the things on that list.

        1. datsci_est_2015 · · focus · HN ↗
          Wow, that quote goes hard.

          I’m reminded that almost no one beyond a select few knew high up in the military and around the emperor knew how badly the Japanese were defeated at Midway.

          Paternalistic. Arrogant. Shameful. And deeply engrained in the Japanese cultural zeitgeist (of the early-mid 20th century).

          Edit: I guess it’s commonly attributed to a German citizen, but their cultures mirrored each other. Fascism falling under the weight of its own propaganda.

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