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Esra'a

"Grindr is currently revising its terms of service to ask people explicitly if the company can train its AI models on their personal data, which could include direct messages"

"This information will likely be used to train another paid product: an AI boyfriend"

Deeply troubling, and opens the door to so many (potentially life-threatening) security vulnerabilities:

platformer.news/grindr-ai-boyf

Platformer · Inside Grindr's plan to squeeze its usersThe company’s bet on AI boyfriends and other paywalled features is making some employees nervous

@alshafei
Sweet... 3-2-1 to automated gay extortion schemes in gay-prosecuting countries.
Morons.

@alshafei An AI boyfriend based on Grindr conversations seems like the least marketable product in the world.
It's bad that they want to change the terms this way but it also sounds bad.

@alshafei Bound to be the worst AI model known to man. Unless, of course, you’re into unsolicited pics and ungrammatical dirty talk…

@alshafei who is asking for these AI partners?? No one wants this, no one needs it, and no one will pay for it. All for the cost of absolutely zero privacy.