Shit, so anyone wearing these glasses is compromising everyone they come into contact with, not just to data brokers, but by extension to the us government, and everyone else the data brokers sell the information to.
That’s what gets to me. In this case yah, but so many other situations too. I can try to improve my own privacy environment. I cannot stop random people from biometricing me as I walk around the city.
My friends tell me sometimes, you were always visible in public, what do you worry about? But it is a vast difference between someone seeing a random unknown person walking who they forget 30 seconds later, and having a permanent record of everyone’s movements attached to their IDs.
I can refuse to opt in. I cannot stop total strangers from opting me in tho.
FFS.
Absolutely. Couldn’t agree more.
I just run everything possible locally which helps a lot. Nearly everything my friends do in “the cloud” I do on my own computer. Even stuff like spreadsheets they want to do in the cloud. It flummoxes me, how willing they are to share everything with big tech.
If you have a mid range or better GPU, you can even run a local LLM. I have used one for language translation. I cannot speak German but I was talking to a German speaker who did not speak English about a hobby. We could talk to each other despite not sharing a language. That’s practically sci-fi to me! I used a sandboxed LLM disallowed from any network access, to do that.
Even so, I am skeptical about most of what I see people use LLMs for. I am afraid of what they will allow bad actors to do. I am afraid of even worse corruption of the information space. I doubt the horse will re-enter the barn tho.