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> I guess law enforcement can acquire all your chat logs from OpenAI

OpenAI could also just voluntarily give it to the government.

I'm trying to find ways to articulate these fears without sounding deep in hyperbole but it's undeniable that the current US government has authoritarian desires. When I look at all these services I'm forced to think "if push came to shove, would they stand up for my rights?", and I just don't have a lot of faith in the current tech giants.



No company is trustworthy.

Even Radio Shack, during their bankruptcy proceedings, argued that users gave their addresses, phone numbers, and names only for Radio Shack marketing. The judge in the case dismissed that terms of service, and then proceeded to order a sell of that information.

So yeah, the current AI company, whichever one we look at may be ethical and keep everything private. They could be anti-enshittification and do everything right. But all it takes is 1 bad CEO, or a board who wants more money, or a PE firm come in and bankrupt them... and all that data is out in the open.

That's why I run my own LLMs, abliterated (uncensored), and clean up my history when I'm done. I don't trust these companies with my deep secrets, or with back-and-forth that may reveal parts of me I don't want revealed.

But for the public clouds, I don't care if they know I'm uploading an image of various Asian writing and ask for a transliteration and translation. Or simple powershell crap, or "linux tool that can do $thing". Im reasonably sure simplistic question/answer with no further back and forth, is probably safe.


sama is maga


No, he'll just do or say anything for more power and control, which I guess is the same thing. At least for the person at the top of MAGA.


Here are some recent indicators:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/openai-altman-july-4-zohran-...

https://fortune.com/2025/07/08/sam-altman-democratic-party-p...

He's publicly and explicitly aligning himself with a religiously ultranationalist tendency, declaring an absurdly oppressive and aggressive narcoterrorist state to be a "miracle" that he's "extremely proud of".

Clearly he has a deep fear of equality and democracy, and considers the labour other people provide him with under the threat of misery and starvation to be his indisputable right to decide over.


> declares himself ‘politically homeless’

Could have saved me a click by quoting that


What does that tell you?


"I am not left wing or right wing" means you are right wing.

Don't know why, but this is never not accurate.




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