"In recent years, documents show, Microsoft has also provided the Israeli military with large-scale access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model – the engine behind ChatGPT – thanks to a partnership with the developer of the AI tools which recently changed its policies against working with military and intelligence clients."
"In 2021, after Microsoft failed to secure a $1.2bn deal to overhaul Israel’s public sector’s cloud computing infrastructure, its executives looked with envy at Amazon and Google, which had joined forces to win the sprawling contract, known as Project Nimbus."
"On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that Google’s cloud division provided the IDF with access to its AI-based services."
"In January 2024, OpenAI quietly deleted its own restrictions against the use of its services for “military and warfare” activities as part of a comprehensive rewrite of its policies."
If we use AI services from these companies, our data gets used in making those AI services better, meaning that we are indirectly contributing to war activities.
"Privacy researchers at the Mozilla Foundation in September warned in a report that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare,” noting that 92 percent give car owners little to no control over the data they collect, and 84 percent reserve the right to sell or share your information. (Subaru tells WIRED that it “does not sell location data.”)"
Such a statement about not selling data can be very misleading, because the essential statement of saying "we do not share your location data" does not seem to have been made! Please, let us stop falling for the trick of companies saying that they do not sell our data as somehow equating to them respecting our privacy, because it is not an equivalence.
“While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the Internet ~~might be~~ [are] spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines,” Mozilla's report reads.
“People are being tracked in ways that they have no idea are happening.”
https://archive.is/9dIdu
"the minute you hook up your phone to Bluetooth, it automatically downloads all the information off your phone, which is sent back to the vehicle manufacturer."
"if you want to protect the data on your phone, don't connect it to the car."