February 20, 2024 • 6 mins
This is a feature called TECH TALK! Here, Joe lets us know about the privacy issues with having an AI girlfriend.
Which would you rather: A friend with an AI girlfriend or a friend that's a meth head?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Also from the world to tech. It's tech talk or
we talk about tech. Huh, that is like I'm in
a rave.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That is some great tech talk. Music.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
AI girlfriends are a privacy nightmare. Romantic chat bots collect
huge amounts of data, provide vague information on how they
use it, use weak password protections, and are not transported apparent.
New research from Mozilla shows those are the folks that
brought us fire.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I have a fake computer girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Whatever joy how listen to the disdain in his voice, Folks,
I'm here to show compassion and kindness towards the down trot,
and Jack would just step on them. You shouldn't trust
any answers that chatbots sends you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You tell me you got two You got two friends.
One's a methadict and one's got an AI girlfriend. Which
one do you have more respect for? First of all,
it's simple they love each other exactly. Which one do
I have more respect for? I'd hang out a methadict
more than one that has the AI girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm not answering that question. The AI girlfriend. Guys probably
not going to steal my golf club.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
True.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
An analysis of eleven so called romance and companion chat
bots published Wednesday found a litany of security and privacy
concerns with the bots collectively. The apps, which have been
downloaded more than one hundred million times on Android devices alone,
gather huge amounts of people's data, use trackers that send
information to Google, Facebook, and companies in Russia and China
(01:35):
allow users to use weak passwords and lack transparency about
their owner and the AI models. In other words, they
are exploiting the behazus out of the lonely and pathetic.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I actually think this is a decent question. I would
like to put it to people. You got two friends,
ones of methatic, ones in love with an AI chat bot.
Which one are you more worried about. That's some weird weirdness, man,
that's some new weirdness. Maybe it's going to become common,
Maybe it's going to be normalized. And like, you know what,
chunkier friends have relationships with AI bots, all right?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Color color it in for me. The the U in
love with the AI chatbot guy? How into it is he?
How down the road is he? He uses the L word, Oh, devastating.
I was not prepared for that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you would have to sit there at dinner as
he mentioned being in love with Linda or whatever her
name is.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Wow, I would be a lot more confident in how
to approach it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
With the meth head.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The tweaker, right, the tweaker again. I would guard my
golf clubs in my valuables, but I would know what
to say to them. You love Jenny, your computer chat bot.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Y Lisa, Oh God, I love you Lisa. Okay, Lisa.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Then yeah, I'm gonna have her her profile implanted in
a ten thousand dollars Japanese love doll and we're gonna
move in together.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She and I are going to Hawaii this year. Oh
your whatnot? It's getting worse and worse. Yep, give me
the tweaker anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And then finally this, I thought this was interesting from
the journal be where the top Google search result?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It might be wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
How to spot AI generated content bogus featured text snippets
and misleading ads.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh wait a second, so is Google using their own
new AI That will sometime give me hallucinations. I've never
gotten wrong Google results in the past, I don't think
and not made up ones.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, this writer writes, Wait a second, reformat, there we go.
Have you noticed lately that some of your Google searches
have steered you wrong. There's a reason for that. Spammers
are using AI tools to create an ocean of content,
and Google's algorithms are ranking some of those robot generated
pages ahead of the information you actually need.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, that's going to ruin their business model, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's going to ruin the Internet. This adds as if
it's not already you know, Satan's own playground.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But if I sads for a bike store near me
and it gives me Joe's bikes on Third and Maine,
where we do this, we fix bikes, we sell that
but doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yes, that would be a pisser, wouldn't it. What if
my buddy who's in love with Lisa the chatbot is
also a tweaker He like does meths so we can
stay up all night talking to her. Then we got
a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe I can take your imaginary girlfriend to the imaginary
bike shop.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
This adds a new layer onto tricks that spoil your searches,
including misleading targeted ads. We already deal with that low
quality websites built to appeer atop of the results. At best,
this clickbait is annoying it worst, it can lead you
to scam intended to get your credit card number and
other personal information.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Here's a for instance she cooked up.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
When I wanted to switch the Google account I used
for Gmail, I searched how to change default Google account.
The top result with the large highlighted text led to
an article posted to LinkedIn. The author was Morgan Mitchell,
content manager at adobea Adobe. Mitchell is bylined one hundred
and fifty articles, all of them A written in search
friendly Q and A formats. Lots of those articles include
customer service phone numbers, the go to solution from more
(05:28):
complex problems and for less tax savvy users. The trouble
is Mitchell doesn't exist. The phone number would have had totally
fallen for that. Yeah, a lot of people would have.
And the number in the article didn't belong to Google
or Adobe. Likely Mitchell is just some figment of some
AI's imagination and the number is a way to con
unsuspecting users.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Dang it, that's troubling, Yeah it is, Holy cat would think. So.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You've almost got to do a Google search of your
Google searches.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Which of these searches are fake?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Are?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Which of these results are fake?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yahoo and ask which of these Google searches are fake?
I'm god, I would think Google would want to get
that because that will ruin their business model. That wouldn't
need to happen to me many times, like more than once,
where I'd be Okay, well I can't do that anymore.
I'm off to bing.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Let's bring it right. This has been tech talk, tech
talk where we talk about.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
This seems like the music from a like early nineties
human resources film. You had to watch.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It? Does it really does?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What the hell was that frightened? What's going on? I'm
fran
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Wow, Okay, we're down here.
Also from the world to tech. It's tech talk or
we talk about tech. Huh, that is like I'm in
a rave.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That is some great tech talk. Music.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
AI girlfriends are a privacy nightmare. Romantic chat bots collect
huge amounts of data, provide vague information on how they
use it, use weak password protections, and are not transported apparent.
New research from Mozilla shows those are the folks that
brought us fire.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I have a fake computer girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Whatever joy how listen to the disdain in his voice, Folks,
I'm here to show compassion and kindness towards the down trot,
and Jack would just step on them. You shouldn't trust
any answers that chatbots sends you.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You tell me you got two You got two friends.
One's a methadict and one's got an AI girlfriend. Which
one do you have more respect for? First of all,
it's simple they love each other exactly. Which one do
I have more respect for? I'd hang out a methadict
more than one that has the AI girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm not answering that question. The AI girlfriend. Guys probably
not going to steal my golf club.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
True.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
An analysis of eleven so called romance and companion chat
bots published Wednesday found a litany of security and privacy
concerns with the bots collectively. The apps, which have been
downloaded more than one hundred million times on Android devices alone,
gather huge amounts of people's data, use trackers that send
information to Google, Facebook, and companies in Russia and China
(01:35):
allow users to use weak passwords and lack transparency about
their owner and the AI models. In other words, they
are exploiting the behazus out of the lonely and pathetic.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I actually think this is a decent question. I would
like to put it to people. You got two friends,
ones of methatic, ones in love with an AI chat bot.
Which one are you more worried about. That's some weird weirdness, man,
that's some new weirdness. Maybe it's going to become common,
Maybe it's going to be normalized. And like, you know what,
chunkier friends have relationships with AI bots, all right?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Color color it in for me. The the U in
love with the AI chatbot guy? How into it is he?
How down the road is he? He uses the L word, Oh, devastating.
I was not prepared for that.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you would have to sit there at dinner as
he mentioned being in love with Linda or whatever her
name is.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Wow, I would be a lot more confident in how
to approach it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
With the meth head.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The tweaker, right, the tweaker again. I would guard my
golf clubs in my valuables, but I would know what
to say to them. You love Jenny, your computer chat bot.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Y Lisa, Oh God, I love you Lisa. Okay, Lisa.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Then yeah, I'm gonna have her her profile implanted in
a ten thousand dollars Japanese love doll and we're gonna
move in together.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
She and I are going to Hawaii this year. Oh
your whatnot? It's getting worse and worse. Yep, give me
the tweaker anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And then finally this, I thought this was interesting from
the journal be where the top Google search result?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It might be wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
How to spot AI generated content bogus featured text snippets
and misleading ads.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh wait a second, so is Google using their own
new AI That will sometime give me hallucinations. I've never
gotten wrong Google results in the past, I don't think
and not made up ones.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, this writer writes, Wait a second, reformat, there we go.
Have you noticed lately that some of your Google searches
have steered you wrong. There's a reason for that. Spammers
are using AI tools to create an ocean of content,
and Google's algorithms are ranking some of those robot generated
pages ahead of the information you actually need.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, that's going to ruin their business model, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's going to ruin the Internet. This adds as if
it's not already you know, Satan's own playground.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But if I sads for a bike store near me
and it gives me Joe's bikes on Third and Maine,
where we do this, we fix bikes, we sell that
but doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yes, that would be a pisser, wouldn't it. What if
my buddy who's in love with Lisa the chatbot is
also a tweaker He like does meths so we can
stay up all night talking to her. Then we got
a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe I can take your imaginary girlfriend to the imaginary
bike shop.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
This adds a new layer onto tricks that spoil your searches,
including misleading targeted ads. We already deal with that low
quality websites built to appeer atop of the results. At best,
this clickbait is annoying it worst, it can lead you
to scam intended to get your credit card number and
other personal information.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Here's a for instance she cooked up.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
When I wanted to switch the Google account I used
for Gmail, I searched how to change default Google account.
The top result with the large highlighted text led to
an article posted to LinkedIn. The author was Morgan Mitchell,
content manager at adobea Adobe. Mitchell is bylined one hundred
and fifty articles, all of them A written in search
friendly Q and A formats. Lots of those articles include
customer service phone numbers, the go to solution from more
(05:28):
complex problems and for less tax savvy users. The trouble
is Mitchell doesn't exist. The phone number would have had totally
fallen for that. Yeah, a lot of people would have.
And the number in the article didn't belong to Google
or Adobe. Likely Mitchell is just some figment of some
AI's imagination and the number is a way to con
unsuspecting users.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Dang it, that's troubling, Yeah it is, Holy cat would think. So.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You've almost got to do a Google search of your
Google searches.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Which of these searches are fake?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Are?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Which of these results are fake?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yahoo and ask which of these Google searches are fake?
I'm god, I would think Google would want to get
that because that will ruin their business model. That wouldn't
need to happen to me many times, like more than once,
where I'd be Okay, well I can't do that anymore.
I'm off to bing.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Let's bring it right. This has been tech talk, tech
talk where we talk about.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
This seems like the music from a like early nineties
human resources film. You had to watch.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It? Does it really does?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What the hell was that frightened? What's going on? I'm
fran
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Wow, Okay, we're down here.
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