I feel like every day I come across 15-20 "AI-powered tool"s that “analyze” something, and none of them clearly state how they use data. This one seems harmless enough, put a profile in, it will scrape everything about them, all their personal information, their location, every post they ever made… Nothing can possibly go wrong aggregating all that personal info, right? No idea where this data is sent, where it’s stored, who it’s sold to. Kinda alarming

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    AI has tons of money.

    AI companies either do this scraping, or they buy data from others who have done such scraping.

    Since the AI companies are sitting on full treasure chests (venture capital), there is a vibrant market at the moment.