I appreciate the article link. I'm obviously not pro AI, but the framing in the video is really uncharitable. Without seeing the exact text of the prompt to disable data consent, I can totally see it being ambiguous about deleting data. If you're accustomed to opt out prompts and it does not explicitly use "permanently delete all your chat history" or something similar it's possible you thought it was as innocuous as a cookie opt out. If it is ambiguous then this article serves the exact purpose it was written for. She opens by saying she appreciates articles where people are open about embarrassing topics but then lambasts this guy, several times for things I didn't see him admit to. She takes issue with him using the word conversations as though it implies he is besties with it but they are very casually referred to as conversations and she does so herself. I totally understand not liking the way this guy does his job, or even thinking this means he's not even doing his job, but she seems to be making a lot of assumptions. She's probably right on several points, but the video might as well have been written by AI because it just regurgitates my opinions on AI back to me with no real relevance to the article she's talking about. She also on multiple occasions just casually drops that asking AI to write code for you, with the presumption that you don't understand it, is fine actually. She does this unironically. I almost stopped watching but wanted to finish it in case there was a gotcha at the end about media literacy. There was not.
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