Why the Shift from Google to ChatGPT Searches Will Unleash a Data Privacy Problem
The rise of AI search engines introduces new data vulnerabilities. How safe is our information in the era of ChatGPT?
It all started while reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.
If you’re not familiar with the term surveillance capitalism it basically means that companies, especially big tech firms like Google and Facebook, make money by watching what we do online and selling that information.
It’s a well-known fact that these tech giants track our online behavior and sell that information to advertisers, which helps them create better algorithms, and better products for them to capitalize on the products — meaning us.
So are we basically f*cked?
Well, let me explain.
Our Dystopian Future
As AI-powered tools and language models like ChatGPT become integrated into our daily lives, it’s nowadays much easier to use these models to get highly specialized information.
A few years back people would ask a question on Google, and they would then spend a solid 10 minutes to many hours, trying to find the answer, while…