At this point, Google Gemini has the worst training opt-out for consumers of any of the big players. Claude doesn't train on your data at all, OpenAI and Grok let you turn off training at will, but you can only turn off training for Gemini if you also disable your chat history.
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AI Misinformation Spreads Rapidly During Spain Wildfires Crisis
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Cuidado!
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 18 août 2025
En momentos críticos, como es el caso de los terribles incendios que están arrasando España, la desinformación corre como la pólvora en redes sociales. Además, la aparición de la ia no ayuda… pic.twitter.com/guvsgNq8KVCuidado! En momentos críticos, como es el caso de los terribles incendios que están arrasando España, la desinformación corre como la pólvora en redes sociales. Además, la aparición de la ia no ayuda…
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Privacy Risks Connecting AI Models to User Data
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Connecting ChatGPT or other models to your data comes with some serious privacy implications. From a legal risk perspective, cases like the NYT vs OpenAI lawsuit is already putting all user queries at greater risk of exposure. Now imagine your chats including portions of your
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LLM Coding Agents Create Major Security Risks
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LLM + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare The essay I mentioned on @CNBC
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China semiconductor dominance threatens global tech access
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Future footage of all of us tweeting when China controls the world’s advanced semiconductors and decides who gets access to it. pic.twitter.com/nwIOctEvFy
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 17 août 2025Future footage of all of us tweeting when China controls the world’s advanced semiconductors and decides who gets access to it.
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Wearable Devices as Neural Interfaces: Biometric Data Collection
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yup. wearable devices are already biometric recorders on our bodies — effectively non-invasive neural interfaces.
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Digital Chitragupta: Omnipresent Record Keepers and Surveillance
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It seems we’re basically becoming okay with digital versions of chitragupta – omnipresent record keepers
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Ambient AI Wearables Privacy: Transcripts Over Raw Audio
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Great questions on ambient AI wearables + privacy that not enough people are grappling with. My thoughts on the new normal: 1. People will likely accept persistent transcripts of conversations, but will want raw audio discarded. Closed captioning for the world will be
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LLM Security: Mixing Developer Instructions with Untrusted Input
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Pretty much inherent to how we build software on top of LLMs – mixing developer instructions with untrusted user input is an anti-pattern that's baked into how we build this stuff