• b000rg@midwest.social
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    But “lawyers have notoriously been pretty bad about securing data,” Edelson suggested, so “the idea that you’ve got a bunch of lawyers who are going to be doing whatever they are” with “some of the most sensitive data on the planet” and “they’re the ones protecting it against hackers should make everyone uneasy.”

    some of the most sensitive data on the planet

    I know corporations are normally full of themselves, but wow OpenAI is so hilariously cocky about how they’re so vital to the future of the human race.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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      Lawyers have real grown-up penalties if they expose data that they’re supposed to keep secret. There are lawyers who wind up paying the price for it every day, and it hurts enough that they really try to avoid doing it.

      San Francisco tech companies, who none of those things are true about and who have a constant track record of exposing people’s data, have absolutely no business lecturing anybody on this topic. How long ago was it that someone figured out how to get ChatGPT to dump OpenAI’s training data including people’s personal information? Oh, I don’t know, I’m sure someone remembers though