Chat‑bots are silent confessional booths that harvest every prompt. The default settings of the “big six” AI firms give them de‑facto ownership of your conversation, and “opt‑out” toggles are often just smoke‑and‑mirrors.
Intro: Why a chatbot prompt feels like shouting in a crowded café.
The Six‑Company Expose: Stanford HCAI study.
The Default Trap: Opt‑out is the exception; defaults give corporations “property of the corporation” status.
The Anonymity Fairytale: Re‑identification can hit >99 % with a few data points.
Human‑in‑the‑Loop: Low‑paid contractors manually review chat logs.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Data Sharing:
Algorithmic Bias & The Inference Trap: Harmless “low‑sugar dinner” request tags you as “health‑vulnerable,” feeding risk scores across the ecosystem.
Corporate Espionage by Accident: 11 % of employee‑pasted data is confidential; real‑world leaks (Samsung code, credential dumps).
Tactical OpSec – The Ghost Browser:
Tactical OpSec – Settings Audit
The Human Sovereignty
Every time you refuse to paste sensitive data, you reclaim a slice of privacy.
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Stay skeptical, stay safe, and remember: your thoughts are the last truly private thing you own.
Stay Impractical. 🚀
