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If you care about your privacy don't buy an AI phone

If you care about your privacy I suggest you don't purchase any of the newly touted products with "AI inside" such as an IPhone with Apple Intelligence or PC with Copilot.

The AI isn't really inside. AI requires way too much computing power for a phone or PC to handle. What the vendors have actually done is open a door into your device from which their giant AI computer in the sky can suck whatever they want. Then send back an answer to be displayed on your device.

The technical details are discussed in this article by Dr. Matthew Green of John Hopkins University.

He describes some very plausible scenarios for the near future that are quite dystopian and very worrying if you are a privacy-conscious individual.

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