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I noticed a fairly young person interacting with AI the other day, and I was amazed with the amount of personal information that was being shared with the AI. Sam Oldman warns that there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist. He said the following.
"People talk about the most personal in their lives to ChatGPT. It's, you know, people use it, young people especially, like use it as a therapist, a life coach, uh, having these relationship problems. What should I do? And right now, if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems, there's like legal privilege for it, you know, like it's, there's doctor-patient confidentiality, there's legal confidentiality, whatever. And we don't, we haven't figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT."
He says the company understands that the lack of privacy could be a blocker to broader user adoption. "Don't share confidential stuff with ChatGPT or other AIs." Proton, unfortunately, has introduced Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential. In their blog post, they talk about how big tech is repeating the mistakes from the internet's early days. Instead of using AI to serve people, they are turning people into products and using AI to accelerate the surveillance capitalism business model built on advertising, data harvesting, and exploitation. From what I'm seeing, I must agree with this. AIs are not being used necessarily for our good. They are used for collecting huge amounts of data about us. Proton says benefits are too great to miss and the risks are too serious to ignore. Whether we like it or not, AI is yet to stay. And the current iterations of AI reflect a failure to learn from the past. And that's why they've built Lumo, a private AI assistant that only works for you and not the other way around. No logs are kept, and every chat is encrypted. Lumo keeps your conversations confidential and your data fully under your control. It's never shared, sold, or stolen.
So they talk about how it protects your privacy. There are no logs. Number one, zero-access encryption. This is really important. So not even Proton can read your conversations, just like it can't read your email, your Google Drive, or Google Pass information. This encryption is open-source and trusted by over 100 million people. There's no data sharing unlike with other companies because there are no logs and everything is encrypted. They've got nothing to share, and Proton's European home gives you the benefit of robust privacy protections outside of US jurisdiction. The data that you share is not used to train the AI. This is especially important for businesses working with confidential material. It's also open-source and operates from Proton's European data centers. So they compare Lumo with various other AI assistants. The moral of the story is this is designed for privacy. There are more options available here. But I mean, I think that's enough talking. Let's just have a look at it. So I'll run it right now.
What's the difference between a VPN and Tor? Notice you can run it just without an internet connection, or you can click on the web search option to allow it to access web information, but it basically gives you an overview of a VPN versus the Tor network. So it tells you what a VPN does, and then it tells you what Tor does. So information is good. Talks about the key differences with regards to encryption, being anonymous, speed, trust, etc., and talks about how some users will use both Tor and a VPN. If I asked it something like, "News today," we're told that we need to enable the web search feature for the most up-to-date information. So I'll do that again. "What's the news today?" And then click run. Notice it's now going to search the web rather than just trying to get information locally. So it's pulling information from CNN, Associated Press, NBC, Fox News, as an example. So, "Give me top tech news in the last week or whatever." And there's some news that we could get.
Now, I started using ProtonVPN because of the recommendations of Michael Basil and others. This is a very, very good book, "Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear." If you really want to enhance your privacy, have a look at this book. I highly recommend it. One of the things I love about ProtonVPN is that you can pay for this with cash. You can use Bitcoin. You don't have to use a credit card if you don't want to. They allow you to use Proton for free. Connects to five countries selected randomly, but you can go for unlimited. That gives you many, many more options and much greater speeds. So notice with Proton Unlimited, you can choose from 300 servers in 120 countries. Just recently in the UK, Proton has seen a huge increase in people joining them. This has been covered on quite a few news sites, but personally, I'd recommend Proton. Proton Mail, fantastic, recommended by people in the cybersecurity space, recommended by Michael Basil and others in the privacy space.
I think it's really sad to see that governments like the UK are implementing what I think are draconian laws, crazy privacy-invasive laws, and are basically forcing people to give their personal information to companies with all the data breaches that are happening every day. Look at Have I Been Pwned, got records of data breaches that are taking place. Millions and millions of records are being stolen all the time. Troy Hunt's got like 15 billion pony accounts on his website. Do we really want to be giving our driver's licenses, our passports, etc., to more and more companies to verify our age where the data can be leaked? Or do we really want an AI looking at our faces and recording that information? They say they're deleting the information, but based on what's happened over the years, think of Edward Snowden and the US government and the UK government. Think about what companies have been doing. I don't necessarily trust them to keep my data private.
I'm not suggesting that young people bypass the laws of any country. Please note that. Now, as an adult, you need to decide what you want to do. If you want to go to certain websites, do you really need to provide all this personal information? Up to you what you want to use. I personally would use ProtonVPN. For instance, when I'm traveling in the US and I need to access UK websites, I want to use a VPN because otherwise those websites won't allow me to access them. Or perhaps I think a lot of people are using this so that when they connect to certain websites such as Reddit, they look like they're in the US so they don't have to go through the age verification options. VPNs are becoming more and more useful. Notice these kinds of signups that have happened in different countries around the world as governments have been implementing laws such as in France over here, Vietnam, Tanzania, etc. Many, many companies.
Okay. So, what do you think about this development? Be careful sharing your information with AIs like ChatGPT, etc. I personally would recommend using ProtonVPN. That's what I use. I really want to thank Proton for sponsoring this video and making the world a more secure.