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by apatheticonion 41 days ago
If I spoke freely about how I feel about the US right now and the direct personal impact of policies implemented by the recent administration, I'd be denied entry into the country to visit friends later this year.

It is inconsequential if the US or China have my data, both will misuse it and I am powerless to protect myself from that fact.

Not using LLMs presents a bigger threat to my career than protecting my data.
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Humphrey 41 days ago
Correct - As an Australian I feel free to say anything. But as an Australian who might like to travel again to the USA at some point in the future, I do not feel I have freedom to share openly online.

Whereas, China does not ask for my social network logins, or for me to be pre-approved to travel there. So that is unlikely to be affected.

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godelski 41 days ago 

  > If I spoke freely about how I feel about the US right now
If you read my comment as defending the US then you've misread. Also, you're probably just as pissed as 60% of Americans

  > It is inconsequential if the US or China have my data
Sure it does. The way each distributes data between government and industry has some differences. So too does the different disinformation campaigns each country is running against Australia.

But the main point is really that 2 > 1. 1 country scraping your data is bad. 2 is worse.

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Cub3 41 days ago
> you're probably just as pissed as 60% of Americans

Yet you voted for it

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apatheticonion 41 days ago
To be fair, most of their votes don't actually count.

And even with our westminster system, One nation has swept the right wing. Considering how many seats they will likely get in the next election, my high horse has shrunk a fair bit.

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godelski 41 days ago
Me? I didn't vote for the orange Nazi
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LtWorf 41 days ago
Because you think by voting for the other person AI companies and USA government wouldn't misuse all the data they hoard?
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godelski 40 days ago
Why do you think I like them or support those actions?

Do you support everything the Klingon Empire does? That doesn't seem like the Worf I know. The Worf I know can distinguish the people of a civilization from the leaders of their societies. To conflate them just creates the problems you are criticizing

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LtWorf 40 days ago
The klingon empire isn't a democracy, we don't delude ourselves that simply swapping one single person would have made a difference.
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