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

submitted 6 days 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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[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The obsession with privacy can be taken to an extreme where it's a negative for your mental health. You can sacrifice a little privacy for another important benefit. 100% privacy is either not possible or practical, so don't let it stress you out. I'd be more concerned that AI might lead you down a wrong path, but you're an adult, use your own judgement.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 12 points 5 days ago

This. It's all incremental to me. No I can't be 100% free of big tech and surveillance, etc etc - but how much of my data has Google not gotten since I started paying for private email 5 years ago or so?

(Not much cause everyone else refuses to leave Gmail behind 😂 but all I can do is keep moving myself in that direction.)

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I feel like the "getting into privacy" journey for a lot of people tends to look like a bell curve - you start off with a few apps and minor tweaks to protect you from the worst online privacy invasions, and then it gradually builds and builds until you become the sort of person that has all their cat pictures on an air-gapped encrypted server hidden in a cupboard somewhere while you use SearX to find the best mask that will confuse facial recognition cameras, and then after a while you break through and just go back to using a few apps and tweaks to protect from the worst of it again.

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I get that, but the problem with this kind of AI is, I feel like I'm sacrificing a lot, not a little.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

What's wrong with https://lmstudio.ai/ or https://jan.ai/ for offline, private, FOSS use?

[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Don't make a bigger deal out of it than it is. Nothing bad is going to happen.

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

100% is not possible. Everything else is an illusion.