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
It’s rather ironic Mozilla has a team doing valuable research on the dangers of AI corporations taking your data, compiling it into profiles, and selling those profiles to advertisers (90% of them)…
…While Mozilla itself purchased a subsidiary that offers AI-enhanced shopping which takes people’s data, compiles it into personal profiles, and sells those profiles to advertisers.
Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included needs to do a deep dive on Mozilla’s Fakespot.