alt Hacker News> OpenAI did this with your health data in January. Now it wants your financial data too.
This is far more valuable, they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations, predict things like cheating on your wife & the impending divorce, what vices you have and they can also build shadow profiles of all the people you give and receive money from even if they don't use the product.
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Campaign donations are already public if you donate over $200 - https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup
If all they wanted was to know more about your profile, they could already buy this information form the bank I presume.
it is far more valuable to know the type of boring things boring people buy in their boring daily lives
>they can see what political affiliation you have based on your campaign donations
You can get a pretty good estimate just by looking at other demographic factors like age, education level, income, and zip code. Moreover, how many people actually donate to campaigns?
>predict things like cheating on your wife & the impending divorce, what vices you have and they can also build shadow profiles of all of the people you give and receive money from even if they don't use the product.
Google has all this capability for at least a decade. What concrete harms have actually materialized?
I’d be willing to bet that ChatGPT will know the average user’s political affiliation and vices about three messages in.
The difference is that banking records are harder to falsify, so there’s that.