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I'm using AI and I feel terrible now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by AkashicOwl@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been digging into the rabbit hole for a few months. Been switching to Linux, FOSS everything I can, trying to go to smaller sites, the least dubious social media, VPN, trusted mail, etc etc

But lately I've been in a rough state mentally (I say lately but it's always been with me) and having GPT guide me and being able to just dictate what I think helps me a lot on various levels, for various reasons.
But at this point, using ChatGPT with a mic, isn't this basically cancelling every effort I've made? (using it in the first place anyway) I'm weak and it helps me, should I just throw my efforts out of the window and just say I don't care about privacy anymore and use whatever everyone uses? (on one hand, I've found alternatives for almost everything, so I could keep on using those, but also, again, if I keep on using GPT on a regular basis, this is probably the worst threat the future has to offer in termes of privacy, so...I'm lost)

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Privacy is not all or nothing, and using one thing doesn't cancel all efforts somewhere else.

Don't go so far into the privacy hole that it affects your mental health. Just do what's easy for you.

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the end you're right, but as I was answering in another post, AI seems so big for the future and potentially invasive, that if I start giving this up, not having a google account or whatever, to me, would seem like nothing in comparison, if I'm trying to maintain a relative degree of privacy. So I feel like it's not giving up a bit of my infos, but probably all of it, specially when using an app. Not sure if I'm making sense. But it's like "ok, I won't give this man my info". "This other man, on the other hand, can live in my house and listen to everything"

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

You could always try out an AI service that doesn't collect data like duck.ai: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/