This wonderful egalitarian man and billions of other egalitarians don’t want to be spied on by ‘Big Brother.’
A The Guardian columnist writes (free for you to read, it’s not behind a paywall):
As the article points out, based on some high-profile recent judicial trials:
What does this mean? It means you shouldn’t trust a chatbot with your secrets because, as a number of recent cases demonstrate (including one where a former NFL player allegedly asked ChatGPT for help after he killed his girlfriend), conversations with AI are admissible in court. Even if you don’t expect any legal trouble, you should be wary about sharing your sensitive information: most chatbot conversations are not private, and may be retained indefinitely and shared with other humans. Your AI chatbot is not a shrink – it’s a snitch.
Some people defend the way AI seems to be everywhere all of a sudden, on the grounds that this is just progress, the same as earlier technical innovations such as machinery and steam engines and electricity and atomic power and so forth. My point, however, is not that AI is fundamentally different in this regard from earlier new (at the time) technologies. My point is that exactly as the old technologies were used by an oppressive ruling elite class to increase its control and domination of ordinary people, so too is AI being used in that way now.
Egalitarians, in a genuine democracy, should be the only ones deciding how AI should or should not be used.
So... I asked ChatGPT if it was private..... the ANSWER: Don’t put highly sensitive legal, criminal, financial, medical, or identifying information into any AI chatbot unless you’re comfortable with the possibility that it could someday be reviewed under legal or safety processes. You’re welcome. It’s a reasonable question to ask, especially with how much personal information people sometimes share with AI systems.
Thanks for this warning about engaging with Chat / AI. Meanwhile, the Washington Post posted an editorial about how the government (fuh-getta-bout AI being a threat) is surveilling people. Of course they are using AI to search the "cloud" for details on individuals they deem a threat in some way. Check out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/15/digital-searches-have-become-norm-police-investigations/
"Yet as our lives have migrated from mahogany desks and steel filing cabinets to the cloud, the knock that was expected to accompany every search has gone silent. Today, when the government wants to sift through your private papers, it doesn’t need to go through any door, let alone knock. Instead of presenting you with a warrant, it sends one to your email or cloud provider, compelling that provider to search for the evidence the government is interested in. The government also routinely uses a “nondisclosure order” (NDO) to gag the provider from telling you that your data has been examined and surrendered.
There is no opportunity for you or anyone else to object. Your digital life can be copied, reviewed and stored by the state while you remain none the wiser.
These secret investigations fly in the face of the Fourth Amendment and its protections against unreasonable searches, because citizens cannot challenge intrusions they do not know occurred. This is a situation Congress should act to change...Congress now has the chance to restore that vision through the NDO Fairness Act. This bill curbs the abuse of gag orders by requiring judicial findings of necessity, imposing strict time limits and allowing service providers to challenge improper orders. The bill is well-vetted. It has passed the House of Representatives twice since 2021 and is now under serious consideration in both chambers.
We cannot allow the modern necessity of the cloud to become a loophole for unreviewable searches. The NDO Fairness Act will allow the government to do its job and will ensure that secrecy is the exception once again."
Add the fight against the deep state and its secrecy structures as a target of the Egalitarian Revolution.