alt Hacker NewsPeople do realize that if they're doing this, they're not feeding "just" code into some probably logging cloud API but literally anything (including, as mentioned here, bank statements), right?
Right?
RIGHT??????
Are you sure that you need to grant the cloud full access to your desktop + all of its content to sort elements alphabetically?
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When choosing between convenience and privacy, most people seem to choose convenience
Have you ever used any Anthropic AI product? You cannot literally do anything without big permissions, warnings, or annoying always-on popup warning you about safety.
I have my bank statements on a drive on a cloud. We are way past that phase.
Ship has sailed. I have my deepest secrets in Gmail and Docs. We need big tech to make this secure as possible from threats. Scammers and nations alike.
Some do, some don't.
The reality is there are some of us who truly just don't care. The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me". Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.