Also your dignity and sense of purpose, I would add. I think the consequences of these shenanigans are going to be way more wide reaching than what we can currently comprehend. I pray for us all.

This IMO is the real importance of deepseek, GLM, and other free weight models. You might not have the hardware to run something decent locally, but at least with hundreds of API providers they can all compete on whether they are reading the logs.

It’s incredible really that the big providers are hoovering up all the plain text of people describing every situation they find themselves in, at depth, not in googles wildest dreams did they have such detailed dossiers on every individua.

The population metrics of how people were thinking (to what propaganda are they most susceptible to?)

to control people you must have feedback on how effective your campaigning is, how many minds are you changing?

So opting out of OpenAI/Anthropic/Zuckerbucks’ data mining is all well and good but it is a population level problem of centralized data collection by the state, lest we forget room 641A!

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