My latest podcast episode is a wee rant on the reasons why people upload their personal, medical and financial information into AI…

….  that is people who are desperate for answers and help with serious housing and money problems.

Three reasons people do this:

1) Councils and the DWP – the organisations that are meant to help people in need with housing and money – simply do not help.

They turn homeless people away and deny people benefit money. So, you might as well ask chatgpt. You’ll get more information, even if it is slop

2) People have given up hope that their private data will be kept secure. Security concerns around AI taking your data are a luxury.

Fact is that councils and the DWP lose people’s personal, medical and financial information all the time. God knows where it goes. Probably swilling around in some Google AI learning dataset.

3) AI is polite and even enthusiastic to and about you.

Chatgpt and Google AI etc might steal your info, tell you that you can get a council house when you absolutely can’t and sell your data on to sociopathic private companies, but they are really friendly to you while they’re at it.

Makes a refreshing change from being treated like shite by your council and jobcentre.