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by tonymillion 250 days ago
Or… and bear with me on this…

They could just read your text message and browser history

4 comments

In the introductory section: "No trawling through hundreds of pages of chat logs, just a few well-crafted questions, and your deepest secrets are revealed."
I mean.... feed the hundreds of pages of chat logs to the LLM and ask it to spill the tea. Wipe hands on pants.
it's just far easier to ask ChatGPT "hey have I ever mentioned cheating on my partner", with a fun extra risk of ChatGPT making something up that's worse than anything you actually wrote. So it 1) makes finding true positives a lot easier and 2) can invent false positives very easily also
"Each is a play on a privacy risk that’s been around for a while"

This is a new twist that is worth being aware of.

That takes more effort. If you have someone’s phone for 2 minutes while they are in the washroom or whatever, going through texts is harder than just asking chatGPT