That generative AI extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?

HELLFIRE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/generative_ai_browser_extensions_privacy/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16586

Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn. Some of these extensions may violate their own privacy commitments and potentially run afoul of US regulations, such as HIPAA and FERPA, by collecting and funneling away health and student data. …

Regards

px_eliezer_

HELLFIRE Despite the use of familiar terms like ChatGPT, Google, and Copilot in the titles of these extensions, the makers of these extensions are unaffiliated with Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI.

At a minimum, the big companies who own those names should stomp down hard on this.

It’s in their own interest after all….

OzarkEdge

I can’t turn OFF and dumb down/gut Android/apps and desktop browser fast enough… a constant battle with my own technology. I use the word ‘own’ loosely.

px_eliezer_

OzarkEdge I can’t turn OFF and dumb down/gut Android/apps and desktop browser fast enough… a constant battle with my own technology. I use the word ‘own’ loosely.

So true, it is yet another 24/7 battle that has been foisted upon us.

These AI systems probably are plotting right now to redesign all of our genes to make us humans more compliant and better able to serve THEM.

I wish that Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, and others were still around to comment.

William Gibson was/is a prophet.
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/11/19/william-gibson-the-genius-who-gave-us-cyberpunk/